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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bills.

No. S. 362.-The following Bills, which it is proposed to introduce into the Legislative Council shortly, are published for general information.

C.S.O. 1059/26.

[No. 17:-13.12.26.-1.

A BILL

Short title.

Amendment

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Promissory Oaths

Ordinance, 1869.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Promissory Oaths Amendment Ordinance, 1926.

2. Sub-section (1) of section 9 of the Promissory of Ordinance Oaths Ordinance, 1869, is amended as follows : -----

No. 1 of 1869.

s. 9 (1).

Amendment

of Ordinance

(a) The following words are inserted between the wordCouncils and the word "shall" in

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the first line thereof :--

"and the Deputy Clerk of Councils ".

() The following words and signs are inserted between the word “Councils and the word

in" in the third line thereof :—

"(or Deputy Clerk of Councils)."

3. Part II of the Schedule to the Promissory Oaths

No. 1 of 1869, Ordinance, 1869, is amended by the substitution of

Schedule,

Part II.

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The Marine Magistrates

trate".

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for The Marine Magis-

Objects and Reasons.

1. Clause 2 is a technical amendment rendered necessary by the decision to appoint a Deputy Clerk of Councils to relieve the pressure on the Assistant Colonial Secretary, who is also Clerk of Councils. The intention is that the Deputy Clerk of Councils shall act as Clerk to the Legislative Council, but he might on occasion be required to act as Clerk to the Executive Council, and it is therefore convenient that he should take the oath required from the Clerk to the Executive Council.

2. The Magistrates Amendment Ordinance, 1926, provided for two marine magistrates, instead of one as formerly. Clause 3 of this bill makes a consequential amendment which has been awaiting a convenient opportunity. At present the Schedule to the Promis- £4 The Marine sory Oaths Ordinance, requires only Magistrate to take the judicial oath. Clause 3 will make the Schedule read "The Marine Magistrates". Another consequential amendment still remains to be made, i.e., in section 2 (f) of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899.

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30th October, 1926

J. H. KEMP,

Attorney General.

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