182909-1931-Supplementary-Bills-read-a-first-time--Bankruptcy — Page 81

562

Objects and Reasons.

It has been the practice to grant special exemption from the requirements of section 4 of the Merchant Ship- ping Ordinance, to certain small steamers holding Hong Kong passenger licences regularly plying between the Colony and places not open to general trade. The prac- tice would seem to require an amendment of the section, which is relaxed by its proviso in the case of river steamers and trawlers and which was further relaxed in 1917, in the case of river steamers, for a period of 64 years, by Ordinance No. 13 of 1917 and Notification Nọ. 432 of 1923. Section 2 of this Ordinance accordingly adds a third proviso to section 4 (2) of the principal Ordi- nance. Section 3 amends section 44 of the principal Ordinance by substituting the words such fee as the Governor in Comcil shall prescribe" for the words “a fec of one dollar" which is considered au inadequate sum to charge for the informative abstract which is to be supplied under the section, Section 4 of this Ordinance is the suspending clause usual in the case of an Ordinance relating to Merchant Shipping.

March, 1931.

C.S.O. 1 in 4922/31.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

[No. 6-20.4,31.—1.]

A BILL

Short title.

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 12 of 1923, s. 14.

Amendment

of Ordinance

No. 12 of 1923, s. 15.

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 12 of 1923, s. 21.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Vaccination Ordi-

nance, 1923.

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 Vaccination Amendment Ordinance, 1931.

2. Section 14 of the Vaccination Ordinance, 1923, is amended :-

( by the substitution of the words "six weeks

for the words "six months" in the last line of sub-section (2);

,,

(i) by the substitution of the words "six weeks

for the words "one mouth" in the last line of sub-section (3);

(x) by the substitution of the words "six weeks” for the words "six months or one month” in the third line of sub-section (4);

(iv) by the repeal of sub-section (9).

3. Section 15 of the Vaccination Ordinance, 1923, is amended by the substitution of the words "six weeks' for the words "six months" in the second and fourth lines of paragraph (d).

4. Section 21 of the Vaccination Ordinance, 1923, is amended :-

() by the repoul of sub-section (1); and by the sub- stitution of the words "six weeks" for the words Vgiv monthe " in the lust Run of enh-saation 19