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A BILL

INTITULED

[No. 13-29.5.37.-1.]

An Ordinance to amend the Stonecutters Island Ordinance, 1889, as amended by the Stonecutters Island Amendment Ordinance, 1936.

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 Stonecutters Short title. Island Amendment Ordinance, 1937.

Amendments of Ordinance

2. Section 5 of the Stonecutters Island Ordinance, 1889, as amended by section 5 of the Stonecutters Island Amendment No. 4 of Ordinance, 1936, is amended:-

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1889, s. 5 as amended by Ordinance

(i) by the insertion of the words or approach" after No. 14 of the word anchor in the two places where that word 1936, s. 5. occurs in sub-section (1);

(ii) by the insertion of the words "or approaches after the word anchors in sub-section (2);

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(iii) by the insertion of the following sub-section after sub-section (2):-

(3) Any guard or any member of the Royal Naval Yard Police may detain any vessel which appears to be acting in contravention of sub-section (1) and require the master or other person in charge to produce and show his written permit; and if such master or other person on being so required does not produce and show it, or if the said guard or member of the Royal Naval Yard Police suspects that any written permit produced is not a permit duly granted to such master or other person, or is not sufficient authority for anchoring or approaching or making fast, he may arrest such master or person forthwith and deliver him into the charge of a police officer.

(iv) by renumbering the present sub-section (3) as sub- section (4).

Objects and Reasons.

1. Section 4 of the Stonecutters Island Ordinance, 1889, as enacted by the amending Ordinance of 1936 gave guards and the Royal Naval Yard Police powers to arrest persons who were on the island without authority contrary to section 3 of the Ordinance but did not enable them to arrest offenders against section 5.

2. Moreover section 5 (1) forbade the unauthorised anchoring or making fast of vessels within one hundred yards of the shore, but did not forbid the approach of vessels within that distance if they did not anchor or make fast.

3. The object of this Bill is to repair both these defects in the Ordinance of 1889 as amended in 1936.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.