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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bill.

No. S. 21. The following bill is published for general information--

C.S.O. 1/2580/23.

A BILL

[No. 40-29.12.33.-1.3

Short title,

Amendment of Ordin- ance No. 10

of 1899, s. 25 (3).

Suspending clause.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Merchant Shipping Ordinance,

1899.

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 Merchant Shipping Amendment Ordinance, 1934.

2. Section 25 (3) of the Merchant Shipping Ordinance, 1899, is amended-

(i) by the substitution of the letters NQ for the letters NM; and

(ii) by the substitution of the letters RX for the letters YF.

3. This Ordinance shall not come into operation unless and until the Governor notifies by Proclamation that it is His Majesty's pleasure not to disallow the same and thereafter it shall come into operation upon such day as the Governor shall notify by the same or any other Proclamation.

Objects and Reasons.

1. Section 2 of this Ordinance is rendered necessary by the change in the code letters used for "I am on fire" and "Want assistance-Mutiny".

2. Section 3 is the suspending clause usual in Ordinances relating to Merchant Shipping.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

December, 1933.