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SUPPLEMENT No. 1, SEPTEMBER 2, 1949.
as to revocation or cancellation of any licence, permit, pass or authority issued under the regulations or under any other enactment as to the Governor in Council may appear to be necessary or expedient to secure the enforcement of any regulation or law or to be otherwise in the public interest.
(2) Every person who contravenes any regu- lation made under this Ordinance shall, where no other penalty or punishment is provided by such regulations, be liable upon summary conviction by a magistrate to imprisonment for any term not ex- ceeding two years and to a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars.
(3) Notwithstanding the provisions of sub- section (1) if any regulation made under this Ordin- ance provides either-
(a) that a contravention of such regu-
lation shall be punished with death; or
(b) that an offence, not punishable with death under the law in force immediately prior to the making of such regulation, shall be punishable with death, or uses words to a similar effect; such provision shall be subject to the approval of Legislative Council and if approved shall come into operation on such date as may be specified by resolution of Legislative Council."
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Ordinance.
For the purpose of removing doubts it is hereby declared Declaratory that the words in sub-section (1) of section 2 "he may make any regulations whatsoever which he may consider desirable in the public interest" shall be deemed always to have included power to make such regulations as are mentioned in paragraph (g) of sub-section (2) of section 2 and it is further declared that the provisions of sub-section (4) of section 2 shall be deemed always to have been incorporated in the principal Ordinance.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 31st day of August, 1949.
G. C. HAMILTON,
Clerk of Councils.
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