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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bills.

No. S 101.-The following bills are published for general information:-

C.S.O. 2458/17.

A BILL

[No. 39:-13.2.34.—-3.]

Short title.

Amendment of Ordin-

ance No. 4 of 1890,

s. 3 (3),

Amendment

of Ordin-

ance No. 4 of 1890, s. 5 (1).

Amendment

of Ordin-

ance No. 4 of 1890,

s. 11 (2).

New

section 19 added to Ordinance No. 4 of 1890,

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Merchandise Marks Ordinance,

1890.

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 Merchandise Marks Amendment Ordinance, 1934.

2. Paragraph (b) of section 3 (3) of the Merchandise Marks Ordinance, 1890, is repealed and the following para- graph is substituted therefor :—

(b) on summary conviction, to imprisonment for any term. not exceeding six months, or to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars; and,

3. Section 5 (1) of the Merchandise Marks Ordinance, 1890, is amended by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (c) thereof :-

(cc) makes in any affidavit, declaration or writing any statement to the effect that a trade mark or trade description is applicable to the goods; or

4. Section 11 (2) of the Merchandise Marks Ordinance, 1890, is amended by the insertion of the words "in the Colony" after the word "found" in the fourth line thereof.

5. The Merchandise Marks Ordinance, 1890, is amended by the addition of the following section at the end thereof :-

Regulations

as to

Official

54 & 55

19. (1) The Governor in Council may make regulations providing that in cases appearing to affect the general interests prosecutions. of the Colony, or of a section of the community, or of a trade, the prosecution of offences under this Ordinance shall be undertaken by the Crown or by any public officer, and pre- scribing the conditions on which such prosecutions are to be 'undertaken.

Vict.

c. 15, s. 2.

(2) All regulations made under this section shall be laid on the table of the Legislative Council at the first meeting thereof held after publication in the Gazette of the making of