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The New

Ordinance

Section.

1808

Table of Correspondence,--Continued.

Straits Settlements

Ordinance

No. 10 of

1930 Section.

Remarks.

9 (1)

9 (2)

9 (3)

10 (i)

10 (ii)

10 (iii)

Schedule

Defines what is deemed to be contraven- tion of regulations, and is taken from section 4 of Ordinance No. 15 of 1903, which Ordinance with the regulations thereunder is repealed by clause 10 of this Bill.

Derived from section 11 (4) of the Straits

Settlements Ordinance of 1930.

This provision is the same (except that 'any regulation" is substituted for "these regulations'') as Number eleven of the Live Stock Import and Export Regulations which will be repealed by clause 10 of this Bill. It is considered more regular to embody such ει substantive provision in the body of the bill rather than in a regulation.

Repeals 7 (6) of the Summary Offences Ordinance, 1982, as being amply covered by clause 3 of the present Bill.

Repeals section 72 of the Public Health (Sanitation) Ordinance as being cover- ed by clause 3 (1) (g) of the Bill.

Repeals the Live Stock Import and Export Ordinance, 1903 and all the regulations made under that Ordinance, because that Ordinance and the regulations are all of them directed to the prevention of cruelty, and it seems convenient to include all the Hong Kong enactinents relating to cruelty in one Bill.

Part I of the Regulations is based upon the conditions of licences in the Straits Settlements Regulations, of 1931, relating to Animals and Bird shops, revised and redrafted to suit local conditions.

Part II of the Regulations is based upon the Live Stock Import and Export Regulations published in the Regula- tions of Hong Kong 1844-1925 at pages 303-305 as amended by Government Notification 596 of 26/9/30, published on p. 217 of the regulations for that year, revised and redrafted to suit present conditions. The references to the dimensions and mesh of the pig- crates and to the use of flatbottomed boats for the conveyance of pigs across the Harbour in regulation 8 are new.