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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bills.

No. S. 290.-The following bills are published for general information :—

Short title.

Substitu- tion for Ordinance No. 25 of 1927, s. 3 (1).

Regula- tions.

A BILL

INTITULED

[No. 26-20.7.34.-1.]

An Ordinance to amend the Printers and Publishers Ordin-

'ance, 1927.

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 Printers and Publishers Amendment Ordinance, 1934.

2. Sub-section (1) of section 3 of the Printers and Publishers Ordinance, 1927, is repealed and the following sub-section is substituted thereof :-

(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations

(a) for the registration of newpapers and their pro- prietors, printers, publishers and editors:

(b) for the registration, sale, purchase, removal, use, control and licensing of printing presses;

(c) for granting exemptions;

(d) for prescribing fees;

(e) for prescribing forms either in addition to substitution for the forms in the Schedule.

Objects and Reasons.

or in

1. By section 3 (1) of the principal Ordinance it is lawful for the Governor in Council to make such regulations as he may think fit with reference to the regulation of newspapers and their proprietors, printers, publishers and editors, and with reference to the keeping and use of printing presses, and to prescribe fees.

2. This Ordinance substitutes à sub-section which makes it clear that the regulations as to keeping and use of printing presses may deal with the licensing thereof as well as with their registration, purchase, sale or removal.

3. As the definition of "printing press" in section 2 (f) of the principal Ordinance is, purposely, widely framed, the new section 3 (1) provides for granting exemptions.

4. The new section 3 (1) also enables the Governor in Council to prescribe forms either in addition to

or in substitution for the forms in the Schedule to the principal Ordinance.

5. The provisions of section 5 of the principal Ordinance as to the licensing of printing presses are not altered by this Ordinance.

R. E. LINDSEll,

Attorney General.

July, 1934.