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Objects and Reasons.

1. This Ordinance collects and re-enacts, with slight amendments, those provisions of the Larceny Ordinance, No. 5 of 1865 (section 78) and the Corrupt Practices (Documentary) Ordinance, No. 4 of 1865 (sections 5 and 35), which deal with false personation and are repealed and not reproduced by the Larceny Ordinance, 1935, and the Falsification of Documents Ordinance, 1935.

2. Section 2, and also sections 6, 7 and 8, which correspond to sections 10, 11 and 12 of the Falsification of Documents Ordinance, 1935, have been added to this Ordin- ance in order to assimilate the law of Hong Kong on this subject as nearly as possible to the law of England.

3. The attached Table of Correspondence gives in detail the departures from the English provisions on which this Ordinance is based.

May, 1935.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

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