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The Bills Committee considered that there were revenue implications in this proposal, but there was insufficient time for these implications to be fully explored. The Secretary for the Treasury has therefore agreed to the deletion of this amendment from the Bill. He will, however, consider the issue further when amendments are next being made to the Estate Duty Ordinance.

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A minor Committee Stage Amendment I will be moving is to add to the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance a definition of "weekday". The purpose of this is to clarify the meaning of the Chinese equivalent of that term.

Amendments to the Chinese text of the Bill

Finally, Mr President, I will be moving Committee Stage amendments to the Chinese text of the clauses in the Bill relating to the Immigration Ordinance, Crimes Ordinance and Companies Ordinance. Since the Bill was published, authentic Chinese texts of those Ordinances have been published. It is therefore necessary to reflect that development in the amendments to those Ordinances contained in the Bill.

Mr President, I commend the Bill to the Council.

End/Wednesday, July 19, 1995

Public Order (Amendment) Bill 1994

Following is the speech by the acting Secretary for Security, Mr Ken Woodhouse, in the second reading debate of the Public Order (Amendment) Bill 1994 in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):

Mr President,

I would like to thank the Chairman, the Honourable Zachary Wong and Members of the Bills Committee for their thorough and careful study of the Public Order (Amendment) Bill.

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