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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 25, 1911.

HONGKONG.

No. 32 of 1911.

An Ordinance to amend the Post Office Ordin- auce, 1900, and the Laws relating to the Post Office.

F. D. LEGARD.

LS

Gorernar,

[24th August, 1911.]

t

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the law relating to the Post Office :

Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows : —

struction.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as "the Post Office Short title Amendment Ordinance, 1911", and shall be read and and con- construed with the Post Office Ordinance, 1900, here- inafter referred to as the Principal Ordinance

2. Sub-section 2 of section 6 of the Principal Repeals sub- Ordinance is hereby repealed and the following sub- section (2) section substituted therefor:

of section 6 of the

therefor.

(2.) The Postmaster General shall also have the Principal

Ordinance exclusive privilege of performing all the and new incidental services of receiving from all sub-section persons who arrive in the Colony with let- substituted ters, and of collecting, despatching and delivering all correspondence arriving from or intended to be despatched to any place out of the Colony; and no letters from out of the Colony, unless exempt by law, shall be conveyed in the Colony otherwise than by the post or shall be delivered in or transmitted from the Colony otherwise than by or through the General Post Office."

3. The following shall be added to section 9 of the Adds a new Principal Ordinance and numbered sub-section (2):

sub-section

to section 9

of the Prin- cipal Ordin-

ance.

for stamps.

“(2.) All duties of postage and other sums in Provision

respect of postal packets payable in pur- suance of this Ordinance shall be charge- able as stamp duties, and all enactments relating to stamp duties shall apply accord- ingly."

4. Section 12 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed and the following substituted therefor :-

Repeals sec-

tion 12 of the Principal Ordinance

and new section substituted!

therefor.

“12. The Governor may, subject to such instruc- The Govern

tions as aforesaid, make, in relation to corres- or way make

regulations

pondence sent by post, regulations for pro- as to cor- hibiting the conveyance of such articles as respondence. he may think fit; for preventing the send- ing or delivery by post of seditions, indecent

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