CO129-558-2 Coinage Offenses (No.2) Amendment Ordinance 1936 31-3-1936 - 27-11-1936 — Page 12

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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 283.-The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 6th October, 1936-

[No. 28: 10.9.36.-2.]

A BILL

Short title.

Amendment

No. 7 of

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend further the Coinage Offences

Ordinance, 1865.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Coinage Offences (No. 2) Amendment Ordinance, 1936.

2. Section 8 of the Coinage Offences Ordinance, 1865, as of Ordinance amended by section 3 (2) (h) of the Counterfeit Currency (Convention) Ordinance, 1936, is amended by the substitution of the words "three years" for the words "one year" at the end thereof.

1865, s. 8 as amended by Ordin- ance No. 20

of 1936,

s. 3 (2) h).

Amendment of Ordinance No. 7 of

1865, s. 9 as amended by No. 20 of 1936,

s. 3 (2) (h).

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 7 of

3. Section 9 of the Coinage Offences Ordinance, 1865, as amended by section 3 (2) (i) of the Counterfeit Currency (Convention) Ordinance, 1936, is amended by the substitution of the words "four years" for the words "two years" at the end thereof.

4. Section 12 of the Coinage Offences Ordinance, 1865, as amended by section 3 (2) (k) of the Counterfeit Currency (Convention) Ordinance, 1936, is amended by the substitution as amended of the words "three years" for the words "one year" at the

end thereof.

1865, s. 12,

by Ordin-

ance No. 20

of 1936,

s. 3 (2) (k).

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 7 of

1865, s. 14, as amended by Ordin-

ance No. 20 of 1936,

s. 3 (2) (n).

5. Section 14 of the Coinage Offences Ordinance, 1865, as amended by section 3 (2) (n) of the Counterfeit Currency (Convention) Ordinance, 1936, is amended by the substitution of the words "three years" for the words "one year" at the end thereof.

Objects and Reasons.

1. By section 8 of Ordinance No. 7 of 1865, as amended by section 3 (2) (h) of Ordinance No. 20 of 1936, uttering false or counterfeit coin resembling or apparently intended to resemble or pass for current gold or silver coin, knowing the same to be false or counterfeit is punishable with imprison- ment for any term not exceeding one year, and by section 9 such uttering when attended by certain circumstances of aggravation is punishable with imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years.