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Objects and Reasons

The object of this bill is to repeal the existing Ordinance of 1891 which is out of date and to replace it by an Ordinance based on the Bankruptcy Act, 1914, but adapted to local conditions. Its com- mencement is postponed until the 1st January, 1932, so as to give time for the preparation of the rules which are to be made thereunder. The prin- cipal differences between the bill and the statute law now in force in England are shown in the Table of Correspondence. That Table also shows the principal differences between the bill and the present Bank- ruptcy Ordinance.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

February, 1931.

C.S.O 2821/ 7.

A BILL

No. 5.-8.4.31 – 2.]

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend further the Merchant

Shipping Ordinance, 1899.

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

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Merchant Ship- Short title. ping Amendment (No. 2) Ordinance, 1931.

2. Section 4 (2) of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, Amendment 1899, is amended by the addition of the following proviso of Ordinance at the end thereof :-

No. 10 of 1899,

Provided further that it shall be lawful and s. 4 (2). shall be deemed always to have been lawful for the Governor in Council to grant special excmp- tion, which may be subject to any conditions be may impose, from all or any of the require- ments of this sub-section in the case of any ship regularly plying between the Colony and Dosing, Swabue (Shanmi), Ping Hoi, Ma Kung, Sha Yu Chung, Nam O, Tip Fuk, O Tan or any other non-treaty port if the master and mate shall have passed a special examination before the Harbour Master and shall be approved by him for service on such voyages.

3. Section 44 of the Merebant Shipping Ordinance, Amendment 1899. is amended by the deletion of the words "a fee of of Ordinance one dollar" in the last line thereof and by the substitution No. 10 of therefor of the words "such fee as the Governor in 1899, s. 44. Council shall prescribe".

4. This Ordinance shall not come into operation nuless Suspending and until the Governor notifies by Proclamation that it is clause. His Majesty's pleasure not to disallow the same and there- after it shall come into operation upon such day as the Governor shall notify by the same or any other Proelama- tion.

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