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Amendment

of section 56 of the Principal Ordinance.

Amendment of section 85 of the Principal Ordinance.

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3. Section 56 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by inserting the words "any of" between the words "from" and "the" in the fourth line thereof.

4. Section 85 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by substituting the words "balan, compounds of opium or morphine" for the words "or balan in the fifth line thereof.

Memorandum.

This Bill amends the Opium Ordinance, 1909, by declar- ing that it is an offence to be in possession of morphine or compound of opium unless it is exempt from the pro- visions of the Ordinance or is obtained in accordance with any regulations made thereunder.

Clause 3 of the Bill amends section 56 of the Principal Ordinance by making it quite clear that the Governor-in- Council has power to exempt any medicine from one or more of the provisions of the Ordinance.

Clause 4 of the Bill amends section 85 of the Principal Ordinance by declaring that the appropriation of penalties referred to therein should also relate to morphine and com- pounds of opium,

F. A. HAZELAND, Attorney General,

Short title.

Construc- tion.

Amendment

of section 756 of the

Principal Ordinance.

Amendment

of section 77 of the

Principal

Ordinance.

Informing

accused of

committal.

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance further to amend the Magistrates

Ordinance, 1890.

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

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Magistrates Amendment Ordinance, 1910.

2. Whenever the expression "the Principal Ordinance" is used in this Ordinance the same shall be construed as applying to the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890,

3. Section 75 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended:-

(a.) by the omission of the word "next" in the

third line of sub-section (1) thereof;

(b.) by the omission of the word "next" in the

sixth line of sub-section (2) thereof.

4. Section 77 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed and the following section is inserted in lieu thereof :-

"77.--(1). If the Magistrate commits the accused to prison for trial between the tenth and eight- eenth days of any mouth inclusive he shall in- form or cause the accused to be informed thereof in the words or to the effect following A.B., you stand committed to Gaol until the Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court commencing on the eighteenth day of next month there to take your trial.' (2.) If the Magistrate commits the accused to prison for trial on any other day of the month except between the tenth and eighteenth days of the month inclusive as aforesaid he shall inform or cause the accused to be informed thereof in the words or to the effect follow- ing

A.B., you stand committed to Gaol until the next Criminal Sessions of the Supreme

Court thana to taka vone trial?

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