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2. The object of the amendment is to ensure that persons dealt with under section 17 (1) of Ordinance No. 1 of 1932 are not sent to Reformatory Schools but, where necessary, to Certified Industrial Schools, as defined by Ordinance No. 6 of 1932, in order to prevent the attachment of any unnecessary stigma to the children or young persons who are dealt with under section 17 of Ordinance No. 1 of 1932.

3. Section 3 brings this amending Ordinance into force at the same time as the principal Ordinance, which it amends. Such coming into force will be on a date fixed by Proclamation under section 27 of Ordinance No. 1 of 1932.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

September, 1933.

C.S.O. 3148/26.

A BILL

[No. 27-11.9.33.-1.]

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the law with respect to transactions

with money-lenders.

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 Money-lenders Short title. Amendment Ordinance, 1933.

2. The Money-lenders Ordinance, 1911, is amended by New the addition of the following new section after section thereof:

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2A. No person shall be imprisoned in execution of a judgment for the payment of money due to any money-lender or for the payment of money due in respect of any loan, by money-lender.

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section 2A added to Ordinance No. 16 of 1911.

Execution of judgments transactions

in respect of

with money- lenders not

to be enforced by imprison- ment.

Objects and Reasons.

The object of this Ordinance is to put an end to the application to moneylending transactions of the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure relating to execution of judgments for money by imprisonment.

September, 1933.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.