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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 19, 1934.

HONG KONG.

No. 32 of 1934.

1 assent.

W. PEEL,

L.S.

Governor.

Short title.

Addition of

new section

3A to Ordi-

nance No. 3

of 1932.

Appointment

sioner for oaths.

19th October, 1934.

An Ordinance to amend the Estate Duty Ordinance, 1932.

[19th October, 1934.]

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 Amendment Ordinance, 1934.

the

Estate Duty

2. The Estate Duty Ordinance, 1932, is amended by the insertion of the following section, numbered 3A, immediately after section 3 thereof :-

3A. (1) The Chief Justice may, by a commission signed of commis- by him, appoint the Commissioner or any Deputy Com- missioner to be a commissioner to administer oaths and take declarations and affirmations for the purposes of this Ordin- ance, and may revoke any such appointment.

Validation of previons commissions.

(2) Every person so appointed shall be styled a ccm- missioner for oaths and shall have all the powers and discharge all the duties which now belong to the office of a commissioner to administer oaths.

3. Every commission issued by a Chief Justice before the commencement of this Ordinance and purporting to appoint any person to be a commissioner for oaths for the purposes of any Ordinance relating to Estate Duty, and everything done under the colour of any such commission, is validated for all purposes.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 18th day of October, 1934.

H. R. BUTTERS, Deputy Clerk of Councils.