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[No 37-17.10.31.-1]

A BILL

INTITULED

Short title.

Addition of

new section 3A-to

Ordinance No. 9 of

1927.

:

Amendment of Ordinance

No. 9 of 1927, s. 4.

An Ordinance to amend the Public Revenue

Protection Ordinance, 1927.

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 Public Revenue Protection Amendment Ordinance, 1931.

2. The following new section is added after section 3 of the Public Revenue Protection Ordinance, 1927:-

Restriction of 3A. The Governor may at any time by delivery of

order authorise the Superintendent of Im- dutiable goods.

ports and Exports, during any period 5 & 6 Geo. 5, named in the order not exceeding four c. 89, s. 15. months, to refuse to allow the delivery of dutiable goods or commodities for local use from ship side or warehouse on payment of duty in any cases where deliveries are demanded of amounts exceeding the deli- veries which appear to the Superintendent to be reasonable deliveries in the circum- stances.

3 Section 4 of the Public Revenue Protection Ordinance, 1927, is amended by the insertion of the words or order" after the word "resolution" in sub- section (2) (b).

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Objects and Reasons.

1. Section 2 of this Ordinance inserts in the principal Ordinance a new section based on section 15 (1) of the Finance Act, (No. 2) 1915, as amended by the Finance Act, 1919; but the duration of the order is put at four months instead of three to conform with the provisions of section 4 (2) (d) of the principal Ordinance.

2. Section 3 of this Ordinance amends section 4 (2) (b) of the principal Ordinance so as to make provision for the notification of the withdrawal of any order made under the new section 3A.

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October, 1931.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.