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No. 52-11.12.35.-2.]

Short title.

New section

82B for Ordinance No. 3 of 1885.

Extension

of sections 76 to 82

to certain

other

documents.

46 & 47 Vict. c. 55, s. 17.

Repeal of Ordinance No. 33 of 1935, s. 2.

A BILL

INTITLULED

An Ordinance to amend the Bills of Exchange Ordinance, 1885, and the Falsification of Documents Ordinance, 1935.

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 Bills of Exchange and Falsification of Documents Amendment Ordinance, 1936.

2. The Bills of Exchange Ordinance, 1885, is amended by the insertion of the following section after section 82A :-

82B. Sections 76 to 82, both inclusive, shall extend to any document issued by a customer of any banker, and intended to enable any person or body corporate to obtain payment from such banker of the sum mentioned in such document, and shall so extend in like manner as if the said document were a cheque: Provided that nothing in this section shall be deemed to render any such document a negotiable instrument. For the purposes of this section the Colonial Treasurer shall be deemed to be a banker, and the public officers drawing on him shall be deemed customers.

3. The Falsification of Documents Ordinance, 1935, is amended by the repeal of section 2 thereof.

Objects and Reasons.

This Ordinance repeals section 2 of the Falsification of Documents Ordinance, 1935, which was based on section 17 of the Revenue Act, 1883, and re-enacts it in the Bills of Exchange Ordinance, 1885, where its presence seems more appropriate. This course was suggested by the Secretary of State in his despatch No. 450 of the 30th October, 1935.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

December, 1935.