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(q) the word "King's" in the marginal notes to sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 shall be deleted.

c. 25,

(3) There shall be substituted for the penalties provided 25 & 26 in section 6 and section 7 of the Coinage Offences Ordinance, Geo. 5, 1865, (which respectively relate to the importation and s. 3 (2). exportation of counterfeit coin) a penalty of imprisonment for any term not exceeding fourteen years.

(4) In the seventh line of section 7 the word felony shall be substituted for the word misdemeanor

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(5) The Coinage Offences Ordinance, 1865, is amended by the insertion of the following new section after section 4 thereof :-

or lighten- ing gold or silver coin 24 & 25

4A. Every person who impairs, diminishes, or lightens Impairing any current gold or silver coin, with intent that the coin so impaired, diminished or lightened may pass for current gold or silver coin shall be guilty of felony and shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding fourteen years.

with intent.

Vict. c. 99, s. 4.

4. The Extradition (Hongkong) Ordinance, 1875, is Amendments amended-

to Ordinance No. 5 of

(a) by inserting the following recital before the last 1875. recital in the preamble:-

AND WHEREAS the First Schedule to the Extradition Act, 1870, was extended to divers crimes by the Extradition Act, 1873, to slave trade offences by the Slave Trade Act, 1873, 36 & 37

Vict. c. 60, to bribery by the Extradition Act, 1906, to offences relating

s. 8. to dangerous drugs by the Extradition Act, 1932, and to

36 & 37 offences in connection with counterfeit currency by the Vict. c. 88, Counterfeit Currency (Convention) Act, 1935;

s. 27.

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(b) by inserting the words

1873,"-

as so extended," after the

6 Ed. 7. r 15 s. 1.

22 & 23

(i) in the last line of the last recital; and (ii) in the second lines of sections 2, 3 and 4.

Geo, 5. c. 39, s. 1.

25 & 26 Geo. 5,

c. 25, s. 4.

Objects and Reasons.

1. The object of this Ordinance, like that of the Counterfeit Currency (Convention) Act, 1935, (hereinafter called the Act of 1935), on which it is based, is stated in the long title, and it is necessary in order that His Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom may accede on behalf of this Colony under Article 24 of the International Conven- tion for the Suppression of Counterfeiting Currency, 1929.

2. Section 1 of the Ordinance is based on section 6 (1) of the Act of 1935. It is usual in the enactments of this Colony to place the Short title at the commencement instead of at the end. The remaining sub-sections of section 6 of the Act have not been adapted as they are considered un- necessary in their application to this Colony.

3. Similarly it has not been considered necessary to adapt section 1 of the Act of 1935 which places currency