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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 3, 1909. 999

Memorandum.

The Foreshores and Sea Bed Ordinance, 1901, requires that Crown Leases proposed to be granted in respect of foreshore or sea bed should inter alia be published in the Gazette for a period of one mouth.

The Bill proposes to dispense with this condition as regards the New Territories where the Gazette is seldom seen and the cost is deemed unecessary.

The other conditions in the Foreshores and Sea Bed Ordinance, 1901, requiring the publication in Chinese of the forms of such leases by publicly posting them near the site of the property are not affected by the Bill.

W. REES DAVIES,

Attorney General,

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the Wireless Tele- graphy Ordinance, 1903, and the Wireless Telegraphy Ordinance, 1909.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thercof, as follows:-

struction.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Wireless Short title Telegraphy Amendment Ordinance, 1909" and shall be and con- read and construed as one with the Wireless Telegraphy Ordinance, 1903, and the Wireless Telegraphy Ordinance, 1909, and this Ordinance and the said Ordinances may be cited together as "The Wireless Telegraphy Ordinances, 1903-1909".

2. The following shall be inserted and read as section Adds a 5 of the Wireless Telegraphy Ordinance, 1903 :-

section to Wireless Telegraphy Ordinance.

1903.

5. If any person establishes or uses within the Penalty.

Colony any installation for the purpose of wireless telegraphy without a licence under this Ordinance he shall be guilty of a mis- demeanour and shall be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding one year or to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or both and in either case be liable to forfeit any apparatus for wireless telegraphy installed or worked without ધી licence, but no proceedings shall be taken against any person under this section except by order of the Governor."

3. Section 2 of the Wireless Telegraphy Ordinance, Amends 1909, is hereby amended by the addition at the end section 2 of thereof of the following words

Wireless Telegraphy

“not exceeding ORO hundred dollars for each Ordinance, offence and may provide for the forfeiture on 1909. any such breach of any apparatus for wireless telegraphy installed or worked on such ships".

Memorandum,

This Ordinance provides penalties for the violation of the Ordinances relating to wireless telegraphy.

W. REES DAVIES, Attorney General.

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