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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 8, 1912.

HONGKONG.

No. 7 of 1912.

AN Ordinance to amend the Liquors Consolida-

tion Ordinance, 1911.

LS

F. D. LUGARD,

Governor.

[8th March, 1912.]

Short title.

Amends sec- tion 57 of Ordinance No. 9 of 1911.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinauce may be cited as the Liquors Amend- ment Ordinance, 1912.

2. Section 57 of the Liquors Consolidation Ordinance, 1911, is hereby amended as follows:-

(a.) by the deletion of sub-section (2);

(b.) by renumbering sub-section (3) as sub-section

(5);

(c.) by the insertion after sub-section (1) of the

following sub-sections :--

"(2.) The Governor-in-Council may classify the warehouses to which such licences are issued or intended to be issued.

(3.) The Legislative Council may at any time by resolution alter the fees which may be charged for such licences in respect of all classes or any class of such warehouses. Provided however that no fee shall be charged for a licence granted to the Naval or Military authorities for Naval or Mili- tary purposes.

(4.) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (3) the fee for every such licence shall be two hundred and fifty dollars per annum.”

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 7th day of March, 1912.

C. CLEMENTI,

Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 8th

day of March, 1912.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

No. 70. His Majesty the King has not been advised to exercise his power of dis- allowance with respect to the following Ordinance :-

Ordinance No. 52 of 1911, entitled-An Ordinance to amend the Peace Preserva-

tion Ordinance, 1886.

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

7th March, 1912

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C. CLEMENTI,

Clerk of Councils.