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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 1,

1935.

HONG KONG.

No. 5 OF 1935.

I assent.

W. PEEL,

L.S.

Governor.

Short title.

Amendment

of Ordinance

1st March, 1935.

An Ordinance to amend the Tobacco Ordinance, 1931.

[1st March, 1935.]

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 Tobacco Amend- ment Ordinance, 1935.

2. Sub-section (1) of section 7 of the Tobacco Ordinance, 1931, is amended by the deletion of all the words after the 1931, s. 7 (1). word "tobacco" in the sixth line thereof.

No. 39 of

New section 11A for

Ordinance

No. 39 of

1931.

When duty imposed on tobacco grown in

the Colony is payable.

3. The Tobacco Ordinance, 1931, is amended by the insertion of the following new section after section 11 thereof :-

11A. Any duty which may be imposed on tobacco which has been grown in the Colony shall be payable as follows:-

(a) unless the tobacco is removed from the premises of the grower to a general bonded or licensed warehouse, or for the purpose of export, under a removal or export permit as the case may be, the duty shall be payable before removal from such premises.

(b) If the tobacco is so removed into a general bonded or licensed warehouse, the duty shall be payable before the removal of the tobacco from such general bonded or licensed warehouse, or from some other general bonded or licensed warehouse in which the tobacco has been stored with the per- mission of the Superintendent, unless such removal is for immediate export.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this. 28th day of February, 1935.

R. A. C. North,

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Deputy Clerk of Councils.