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A. D. 1910.

Alteration

of form of accession

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 7, 1910.

Accession Declaration Act, 1910.

[10 Edw. 7 AND 1 GEO. 5. CHAPTER 29.]

An Act to alter the form of the Declaration required to be made by the Sovereign

on Accession.

[3rd August. 1910.]

E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows :

1. The declaration to be made, subscribed, and audibly repeated by the Sovereign under section one of the Bill of Rights and section two of the Act of declaration. Settlement shall be that set out in the Schedule to this Act instead of that referred Mary, Sess. to in the said sections.

1 Will. &

2, c. 2.

12 & 13 Will. 2. c. 2.

Short title.

2. This Act may be cited as the Accession Declaration Act, 1910.

SCHEDULE.

I [here insert the name of the Sovereign] do solemnly and sincerely in the presence of God profess, testify, and declare that I am a faithful Protestant, and that I will, according to the true intent of the enactments which secure the Pro- testant succession to the Throne of my Realm, uphold and maintain the said enactments to the best of my powers according to law.

No. 317. It is hereby notified that Mr. E. S. LINDSEY, Chief Resident Engineer of the Kowloon-Canton Railway (British Section), having certified in writing to the Officer Administering the Government-in-Council, as required by Section 16 of the Railways Ordin- ance, 1909, (Ordinance No. 21 of 1909), that he has made a careful inspection of the British Section of the Kowloon-Canton Railway and of such of the rolling stock as has already been put on the rails, and that he is of opinion that the works and rolling stock are in a sound condition and that the Railway can be opened for the public carriage of passen- gers without danger to the public using it, the British Section of the said Railway was opened for the public carriage of passengers on the 1st instant.

A. M. THOMSON,

7th October, 1910.

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Colonial Secretary.

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