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[No.-22.12.32.-2.]

Short title.

Amendment of Ordin-

ance No. 25 of 1927, s. 2.

Amendment of Ordin-

ance No. 25

of 1927, s. 4A, as enacted by Ordinance No. 1 of 1930, s. 2.

Security.

C.SO. 9 in 4299/29

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend further the Printers and Publishers

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 Printers and Pub- lishers Amendment Ordinance, 1933.

2. Section 2 of the Printers and Publishers Ordinance, 1927, is amended by the substitution of the following para- graph for paragraph (c) thereof:--

(c) "Newspaper" includes every periodical which is printed or published in the Colony at intervals not exceeding three months, and which contains any public news or any com- ments on public news.

3. Section 4A of the Printers and Publishers Ordinance, 1927, as enacted by section 2 of the Printers and Publishers Amendment Ordinance, 1930, is amended by the substitution of the following sub-section for sub-section (1) thereof :-

4A.—(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (7), no newspaper shall be registered until a sum of three thousand dollars has been deposited with the Registrar by or on behalf of the person seeking registration. Any such deposit while under the control of the Registrar shall bear interest at the like rate as shall for the time being be allowed by the Treasur- er in respect of sums deposited with him bearing interest.

Objects and Reasons.

1. The definition of newspaper in section 2 of the prin- cipal Ordinance limiting it to periodicals which are printed or published in the Colony at intervals not exceeding one month has proved too restrictive. The amended definition sub- stitutes "three months" for one month".

2. Section 44. (1) of the principal Ordinance of 1927, as enacted by the amending Ordinance of 1930 provided that the deposits with the Registrar should bear interest at the rate of four per cent. per annum while under the control of the Re- gistrar. As this is a rate in excess of any that can be obtained by the Registrar at the present time the amendment provides that the interest shall be at the like rate as shall for the time being be allowed by the Treasurer in respect of sums deposited with him bearing interest. This amendment brings the provi- sion into line with the rate provided for in section 7 of Ordi- nance No. 5 of 1929.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

January. 1933.

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