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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 2, 1909. 197

Clause 5. This authorises the Building Authority to re- fuse further notices and plans in respect of buildings con- templated unless the original notices and plans lodged as required by the Ordinance are revoked by the person by whom or on whose behalf such notices and plans were given,

Clause 6. An apparent omission in section 78 of the Ordinance of last year renders an amendment of this section

necessary.

Clause 8. This provides necessary authority to exhume bodies interred in authorised cemeteries or in any other cemetery or place.

HENRY S. BERKELEY, Attorney General,

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend The Life Insurance

Companies Ordinance, 1907.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and ecnsent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Life Insurance Short title Companies Ordinance, 1909" and shall be read and con- and con- strued as one with The Life Insurance Companies Ordin- struction. auce, 1907, (hereinafter called "The Principal Ordinance") and this Ordinance and the said Ordinance may hereafter be cited together as The Life Insurance Companies Or- dinances 1907 and 1909.

2. Section 6 of The Principal Ordinance is hereby Repeal of repealed.

section 6 of the Principal Ordinance.

3. Section 9 of The Principal Ordinance is hereby Amends amended as follows :—

section 9 of the Principal

By the deletion of the word "and" at the end of Ordinance.

sub-section 2.

By the deletion of sub-section (3) and the substitu-

tion therefor of the following proviso

"Provided always that none of the securi- ties so deposited shall be withdrawn until such company shall have satisfied the Registrar that it has no existing Life Assurance business whatever in the Colony."

4. Section 24 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amends amended as follows:-

By the deletion of all the words after the word

that in line 6 to the words "per annum inclusive in line 10, and the substitution there- for of the following words:

the company is insolvent and in deter- mining whether or not the company is insolvent the Court shall take into account upon what it deems under expert advice to be the proper bases as to mortality and interest, the value of the contingent and prospective liabilities of the company".

By the deletion of the word "other" at the begin-

ning of the marginal note.

section 21 of the Principal Ordinance,

5. Section 29 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amends amended as follows :-

After the words "or member" in cach place where they occur shall be inserted the words “or creditor".

section 29 of the Principal Ordinance.

6. The Amendments specified in the Schedule to this Amendments Ordinance shall be made in the Schedules therein referred of Schedules. to of the Principal Ordinance.