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Short title.

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 7 of 1865, s. 11.

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 7 of

1865, s. 13.

A BILL

INTITULED

[No. 50-7.12.35.-2.]

An Ordinance to amend the Coinage Offences Ordinance,

1865.

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 Coinage Offences Amendment Ordinance, 1936.

2. Section 11 of the Coinage Offences Ordinance, 1865, is amended by the substitution of the figures and word "8, 9 or 10" for the figures and word "9, 10 or 11" in the second line.

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3. Section 13 of the Coinage Offences Ordinance, 1865, is amended by the substitution of a semi colon and the word "or" for the comma at the end of paragraph (3) and by the insertion of the following new paragraph after paragraph (3) thereof :--

(4) without lawful authority or excuse, imports or receives into the Colony from beyond the seas, or from any part of China, any false or counterfeit coin resembling, or apparently intended to resemble or pass for, any of the King's current copper coin, knowing the same to be false or counter- feit.

Objects and Reasons.

1. Section 2 of this Ordinance corrects a typographical error in the references to the three previous sections (cf. 24 & 25 Vict. c. 99, s. 12) in section 11 of Ordinance No. 7 of 1865, which was made in the authorised 1924 edition of the Ordinances of Hong Kong.

2. Section 3 of the Ordinance adds a new paragraph to section 13 of Ordinance No. 7 of 1865 making the deliberate importation into the Colony of counterfeited King's current copper coin punishable with seven years imprisonment.

3. The King's copper coin is defined in section 2 of the principal Ordinance as including any copper coin and any coin of bronze or mixed metal, and the King's current coin is defined as including any coin whether made of gold, silver, copper, bronze or mixed metal, coined in any mint in His Majesty's dominions or any such coin lawfully current, by virtue of any proclamation or otherwise, in any part of His Majesty's dominions whether within this Colony or otherwise.