CO129-614-5 Protected Places (Safety) Ordinance 1946- proposed revision 26-9-1946 - 15-1-1948 — Page 34

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FURTHER ACTION.

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I have etc., to refer to your despatch

No.32 of 10th September 1947 in which you

review the operation of the Protected Places (Safety) Ordinance, Ordinance No. 16 of 1946,

and recommend that this measure should be

retained for at least another six months.

I note that the Ordinance has in

2.

large measure achieved the object for which

it was enacted in that, with the sole

exception of the Engineer Stores Depot at

Shamshuipo, there has been a marked decrease

in looting. I also note, with satisfaction,

the prudence with which the exceptional

powers conferred by the Ordinance have been

used by all concerned, and that no criticism

of the Ordinance or of the way in which it

has been employed has so far been voiced.

3.

I nevertheless feel that unless there

is a very definite risk of conditions

deteriorating to what they were when this

Ordinance was enacted, it should be repealed

without further delay. I should, however,

have no objection to the adoption of the

proposal in paragraph 4 of four despatch if,

as I assume, that would only involve the

retention