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Governor to appoint a sufficient number of temporary Directors to act until the election of their successors shall have been completed.

Objects and Reasons.

1. Section 2 of this Ordinance corrects two typographical errors in section 5 of the principal Ordinance.

2. Section 3 makes various amendments in section 8 of the principal Ordinance which result from difficulties which have arisen in securing the election of a sufficient number of Directors of The Tung Wah Hospital for the year 1935.

3. Sub-sections (1) and (2) of section 8 provided that the number of Directors should be not less than eighteen, and not more than thirty of whom at least six should be residents of Kowloon or New Kowloon. This amending Ordinance reduces these numbers to ten, twenty and three respectively.

4. Sub-section (4) of section 8 terminated the period of office of the Directors for any one year at the end of that year, with a proviso to the effect that if the election of the Directors for the following year should not have been completed in time their predecessors should continue in office.

5. The Directors for 1934 have consented to continue in office under the proviso; but only for a short time, and as it may take some time to secure even the reduced number of Directors now contemplated, this amending Ordinance adds a further proviso giving His Excellency the Governor power to appoint a sufficient number of temporary Directors.

February, 1935.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General