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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 19, 1912.

No. 1 of 1870.

No 1 of 1871.

No. 1 of 1872.

No. 5 of 1873,

Oaths Ordinance, 1869, and the same shall be tendered by the Clerk of the Councils in the presence of the Colonial Secretary.

(2.) If an alien who has applied for a certificate of naturalization declines or neglects to take the oath of alle- giance when duly tendered, he shall be disqualifiel from obtaining the said certificate, and, if the same has already been granted, it shall become ipso facto void.

(3.) Section 15 of the Promissory Oaths Ordinance, 1869, shall apply to the oath required to be taken by this section.";

and the existing s. 9 of No. 44 of 1902 is repealed.

16. The following provision is made with re- gard to No. 1 of 1870 and the other Tung Wa Hospital Ordinances :

No. 1 of 1900 and No. 9 of 1904 shall be treated in all respects as if they were part of and incorporated in No. 1 of 1870, and all words used therein, as well as in No. 38 of 1911, shall have the same meaning as such words have when used in No. 1 of 1870.

17.-(1.) In order to incorporate No. 3 of 1902 with No. 1 of 1871 (Legal Practitioners), s. 2 of the former shall be a new paragraph to s. 21 of the latter Ordinance, in which for "section 5 of Ordinance No. 3 of 1871" there shall be read "this section", and the words from " to amend to "Scotland", together with the brackets, are repealed.

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(2.) In s. 27 of No. 1 of 1871, instead of the words shall be liable for every such offence to forfeit to the Crown a penalty not exceeding two hundred dollars", there shall be read the following:-

"shall be liable for every such offence to forfeit a penalty of 200 dollars; Provided that no proceedings for the recovery thereof shall be instituted without the consent of the Attorney General".

18. No. 1 of 1872 (Foreign Offenders Deten- tion), being no longer applicable to Japan, the words "and Japan" in the preamble, and "or Japan" in ss. 3 and 5 respectively, ure repealed.

19. No 5 of 1873 (Oral Examination of Prisoners), being in conflict with No. 16 of 1906, is repealed, and also ss. 34 and 35 of No. 2 of 1889, and s. 97 and form No. 71 in the schedule of No. 3 of 1890.

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