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Draft Bills.

No. S. 270.-The following bills are published for general information-

C.S.O. 380/1888.

A BILL

[No. 24-10.7.34.-1.]

Short title.

Amendment

of Ordin-

ance No. 1 of 1888, s. 2.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Official Signatures Fees Ordinance,

1888.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, follows:

as

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Official Signatures Fees Amendment Ordinance, 1934.

2. Section 2 of the Official Signatures Fees Ordinance, 1888, is amended by the addition of the following paragraph at the end thereof:

(11) for the signature of the Head of the Sanitary Department-$5.

Objects and Reasons.

The effect of the proposed amendment of the principal Ordinance is to add the Head of the Sanitary Department to the list of officials for whose signature a fee is charged.

Its purpose is not so much to obtain extra revenue as to discourage the frequent applications which are made to the Head of the Sanitary Department on no very adequate grounds for, e.g., the change of the name of a holder of a market lease or licence.

R. E. LINDSEll,

Attorney General.

July, 1934.