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2. The principal Ordinance as first enacted contained a power to make bye-laws for regulating the landing of dangerous goods and the mooring of ships on which such goods were carried. This power was later amended, and finally replaced (in the Dangerous Goods Amendment Ordin- ance, 1922) by the power to make regulations which appears in the present section 5 (1) of the principal Ordinance. The section (section 7) however, governing penalties for breach of the regulations, retains substantially the form in which it was originally enacted, and provides for a penalty only in cases where goods are illegally moved, stored, shipped, landed, etc. Consequently no penalty is recoverable for a breach of regulations made, or of conditions of a licence issued, under section 5 (1) unless the breach also falls within section 7.

3. Section 3 of this Ordinance provides for a penalty for breach of the principal Ordinance, a regulation or condition of a licence in all cases where such provision has not already been made.

August, 1933.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

(C.S.O. 4305/31).

A BILL

[No. 22.-13.9.33.-3.]

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Industrial and Reformatory

Schools Ordinance, 1932.

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 Industrial and Short title. Reformatory Schools Amendment Ordinance, 1933.

Amendment

2. Section 2 of the Industrial and Reformatory Schools Ordinance, 1932, is amended by the repeal of the definition of Ordin of "youthful offender" at the commencement thereof, and of 1932, by the substitution of the following definitions:

"Youthful offender" means any offender who, in the absence of legal proof to the contrary, is, in the opinion of the court before whom such person is brought or appears, seven years of age or upwards and under the age of sixteen

years.

"Child" means a person under the age of 14 years. "Young person" means a person of 14 years or upwards and under the age of 16 years.

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