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5. Section 7. Under the old Ordinauce 8 of 1899 Section 4 all rules had to be certified by the Colonial Secretary and duly recorded in the districts. This was impossible to carry out and the districts have now been done away with.

6. Sections 9-11. The old powers are retained but given to the Distrier Officer instead of the Registrar General.

7. Section 12. Consequential alteration. The old section mentioned districts and sub-districts; these have been done away with.

8. Section 21. In part new. By an oversight in

the old Ordinance the Assistant Land Officer could not legally administer an oath, ete, 9. Section 58. Words added so that a plaintiff cau sue if a debt is contracted in the New Terri- tories. Under the old wording if a debt were #ntracted in the New Territories and the debtor moved to Hongkong before the action was brought it is doubtful if the case could be heard in the New Territories.

10. Section 72. Money changers' licences are to be issued by the District Officer in the Northern District and the Captain Superintendent of Police in the Southern District instead of by the Registrar General. This will be found more convenient in practice.

11. Section 73. Pawnbrokers' licences in the New Territories are to be issued by the District Officer and not by the Captain Superintendent of Police in the Northern District. It is more satisfactory that fees paid in the Territory should be collected there than in Hongkong.

S. B. C. Ross.

Short title and

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the Liquor Licences

Amendment Ordinance, 1909.

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 Liquor Licences Amendment Ordinance, 1910," and it shall be construction. read and construed as one with the Liquor Licences

Amendment Ordinance, 1909.

Amends section 6 of the Liquor Licences Amendment Ordinance, 1909.

Amends

2. Section 6 (a) (1) of the Liquor Licences Amendment Ordinance, 1909, is hereby repealed and the following is substituted therefor:

"(1.) No liquor shall be sold or drunk upon any licensed premises except between the hours of eight o'clock in the morning and twelve o'clock midnight. Provided that the Governor-in- Council may by Order from time to time alter such hours as aforesaid.”

3. Section 15 of the Liquor Licences Amendment Ordin- section 15 of ance, 1909, is hereby amended by the deletion of the the Liquor second additional condition.

Licences

Amendment

Ordinance,

1909.

Memorandum,

This Bill effects two necessary amendments in Ordinance No. 46 of 1909 so as to fix definite hours for the sale of liquor upon licensed premises.

W. REES DAVIES,

Attorney General.

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