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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 25, 1935.

No. 822.

Hong Kong.

ORDINANCE No. 21 of 1927. (DOGS).

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 3 of the Dogs Ordinance, 1927, the Governor in Council further amends the regulations made under the said Ordinance and published in the Gazette of the 25th November, 1927, as Government Notification No. 694 as subsequently amended, as follows:-

Amendments.

1. The following regulation is inserted immediately after regulation 3:-

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3A. If the owner or master of the Fanling hounds shall prove to the satisfaction of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon that every hound entered in or used with the pack has been inoculated against rabies within a period of twelve months preceding the end of any numerical year and shall enter into an agreement to the satisfaction of the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon that such owner or master will cause every such hound again to be inoculated within a period of twelve months after its last inoculation and that no hound shall be entered in or used with the pack which has not been inoculated against rabies within a period of twelve months before such entry or use. then it shall be lawful for the Inspector General of Police to issue a single licence in respect of the whole of such pack in lieu of a separate licence for each hound entered in or used therewith and the annual fee for such licence shall be twenty-five dollars provided that such licence may at any time be revoked if it shall be proved to the satisfaction of the Inspector General of Police that there has been any breach or non-observance of the above- mentioned agreement.

2. Paragraph (1) of Regulation 21, which was published in the Gazette of the 29th June, 1934, as Notification No. 490, is rescinded and the following paragraph is substituted therefor

(1) The provisions contained in paragraph (2) of this regulation shall not apply to dogs in the non-mainland areas of the New Territories, or to any sporting dog when actually working under the charge of the holder of a game licence, or to hounds of the Fanling Hunt when hunting or when going to or from a hunt or when being exercised by mounted men; provided that such hounds have been inoculated against rabies and that the time since such inoculation has not exceeded twelve months and further that the latest certificates relating to such inoculations have been produced to the Colonial Veterinary Surgeon and to the Inspector General of Police.

H. R. BUTTers,

Clerk of Councils.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

21st October, 1935.

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