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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZEITE, MARCH 8, 1912.

in the schedule,

in forms 5, 6, 8 and 9,

after "Registrar

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there shall be inserted " (or Assistant Registrar)".

in form 15,

for " contains more than one Body"

there shall be read “also contains the Body of a Child”.

in form 16,

for "Registrar General or a Registrar of Deaths"

there shall be read "Registrar or an Assistant Registrar "

for "Registrar General or a Registrar"

there shall be read "Registrar or an Assistant Registrar" twice

for "Registrar General" in the last note there shall be read "Registrar of Births or Deaths".

in the Notice,

for "Registrar General or a Registrar of Deaths

""

there shall be read "Registrar of Births and Deaths, or an Assistant Registrar". and in the notes,

for "Registrar General or Registrar

""

there shall be read "Registrar of Births and Deaths or an Assistant Registrar". Ordinance No. 8 of 1896:-

ss. 3, 4 and 5 shall be absorbed into one section, to be numbered s. 3 which shall be as follows:-

"Every person who:-

(1) mixes, colours, stains, or powders, or orders or permits any other person to mix, colour, stain or powder,

(a) any article of food with any ingre- dient or material so as to render the article injurious to health, or

(b) any drug with any ingredient or ma- terial so as to affect injuriously the quality or potency of such drug,

with intent that the same may be sold in that state; or

(2) sells any such article or drug so mixed, coloured, stained, or powdered, shall in every case, on summary conviction, be liable to a fine not exceeding 500 dollars.

Provided that no person shall be liable to be convicted under this section in respect of the sale of any article of food or of any drug if he shows, to the satisfaction of the Magistrate, that he did not know that the article of food or drug sold by him was so mixed, coloured, stained, or powdered, and that he could not, with reasonable diligence have obtained that knowledge."

in ss. 12 and 20,

for "some analyst "

there shall be read "any analyst ". in s. 13,

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for some other analyst'

there shall be read "any analyst ".

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