TNAG-0990-FCO40-1209-Allegations-of-bribery-and-corruption-in-Hong-Kong-1980 — Page 99

CONFIDENTIAL #

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A BILL

то

Amend the Prevention of Bribery Ordinance and to validate

certain orders made thereunder.

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice

and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

Short title.

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This Ordinance may be cited as the Prevention

of Bribery (Amendment and Validation) Ordinance 1980.

Amendment of

section 12.

2. Section 12 of the principal Ordinance is amended

(Cap. 201.) by adding after subsection (4) the following

Validation.

"? (5)

An order may be made under subsection (3)

in respect of an offence under section 10(1)(b)

where the facts that gave rise to that offence

arose before 15 February 1974.".

3. No order purporting to be made under section

12(3) of the principal Ordinance before the commencement

of this Ordinance shall be or ever have been invalid by

reason only that the order purported to have been made

in respect of an offence under section 10(1)(b) where

the facts that gave rise to that offence arose before

15 February 1974.

G.F. 323

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