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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bills.

No. S. 174. The following bills are published for general information :-

(C.S.O. 5998/29).

A BILL

[No. 28-5.5.32.—1.]

"Short title.

New -section 4A to

Ordinance

No. 32 of *1915.

Powers of

"the Governor

in Council

with regard

to un-

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Importation and Exportation

Ordinance, 1915.

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 Importation and Exportation Amendment Ordinance, 1932.

2. The Importation and Exportation Ordinance, 1915 is amended by the addition of the following section after section 4 thereof:

4A.--(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to exercise all or any of the following powers:-

(a) to prohibit the importation of unmanifested cargo, manifested or either generally or from any particular country or place;

unauthorised

cargo.

(b) to prohibit the exportation of unmanifested cargo, either generally or to any particular country or place;

(c) to prohibit the placing on board any ship in the Colony of any cargo without the consent of the owners, charterers, agents or master thereof;

(d) absolutely or conditionally to exempt from any such prohibition cargo carried in passengers' luggage or any other class of cargo whatsoever; and

(e) to prescribe any other restriction or condition whatsoever on the importation or exportation of unmanifested cargo or on cargo placed on board any ship.

(2) In this section "unmanifested cargo" means cargo not entered on the ship's manifest.

Objects and Reasons.

1. The powers of prohibition and regulation of importa- tion and exportation contained in sections 3 and 4 of the principal Ordinance appear to be limited to the prohibition and regulation of specific articles.