CO129-587-7 Telephone Amendment Ordinance 1940 9-4-1940 - 16-4-1940 — Page 38

Enclosure No.2.

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

Hong Kong, ... 5th April,.....1940.

REPORT ON ORDINANCE No.

......... of 1940.

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1. I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled an

Ordinance to amend the Telephone Ordinance, 1925, as amended.

by the Telephone Amendment Ordinance, 1930 and the Telephone

Amendment Ordinance, 1933.

2.

Prints of the memorandum of Objects and Reasons of

the Bill for this Ordinance and of the Table of Correspondence

referred to therein are attached. A more elaborate statement

of the purpose and effect of this Ordinance, which passed

through the Legislative Council without any opposition, is

contained in the speech of the Acting Financial Secretary on the First Reading on the 28th March, 1940, the local

Hansard Report of which has been forwarded to the Colonial

Office.

3.

I am of opinion that the Ordinance is not contrary

to the Governor's instructions and that it is one to which

His Excellency may properly assent in the name of His

Majesty and on His behalf.

& Celalet

Attorney General.