CO129-554-12 Public Reclamations Validation and Clauses Bill (formerly Foreshores Bill) 30-4-1935 - 3-3-1936 — Page 6

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15 OCT 1935

Mr. Looker, who took a prominent part on

behalf of the China Association in the criticism

of the Hong Kong Government's Foreshore and Sea Bed

Works Bill in 1933, called this morning by arrange-

ment to discuss the redrafted Bill,which we approved

in No. 4 in this file after having ascertained that

the Foreign Office saw no objection to the redraft.

He told me that the present situation of int that Legislature the Bill was that it had been introduced /and in the

and

course of the second reading it had been agreed, at

the request of the Unofficial Members, that the

Bill should not at present be proceeded with pending

a reference home on the part of several unofficial

interests and a discussion between them and the

Attorney General.

Although Mr. Looker had not discussed the

Bill in any complete sense in the Committee of the

China Association, he had prepared a memorandum for

such a discussion in which, as at present drafted,

he proposed to criticize Part II of the Bill on the

following points :-

Clause 5 (1).

It is not clearly stated when the two

months' notice was to start from: ? from the

date of the publication of the Bill or from

separate notification of the details of an

undertaking contemplated.

Clause 5 (2)