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Objects and Reasons.

1. The principal Ordinance (No. 8 of 1921, s. 21 and Schedule Heading 13) requires annual certificates in the case of architects, barristers, dentists, medical practi- tioners, pharmaceutical chemists and solicitors practising in the Colony.

2. The object of this Ordinance is to add auditors authorised to audit companies accounts, who practise in the Colony, and to raise the annual fee from $25 to $50.

3. Section 2 defers the commencement of the amend- ment until the 1st January, 1932, so as to permit current certificates to expire.

4. Sections 3 and 4 effect the amendments contem- plated.

5. The proviso added by section 3 (ii) is inserted because by section 113 (10) of the Companies Ordinance, 1911, as amended by section 8 of Ordinance No. 15 of 1925, the word person in reference to authorised auditors includes a firm.

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September, 1931.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.