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A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the law relating to Dan-

gerous Goods.

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

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Dangerous Short title. Goods Amendment Ordinance, 1912.

of Ordinance

2. Sub-section (5) of section 10 of the Dangerous Amends Goods Ordinance, 1873, (as amended by the Dangerous section 10 (5) Goods Amendment Ordinance, 1910), is hereby repealed No. 1 of and there shall be substituted therefor the following sub- 1873 (as section.

amended by Ordinance

(5.) If any person has dangerous goods to which No. 27 of this Ordinance applies in his possession custody 1910).

or power or in the possession custody or power of any servant or agent of his in coutravention of this section such dangerous goods shall, together with the vessels or packages contain- ing the same, be forfeited, and in addition thereto such person shall be liable ou summary conviction to imprisonment for any period not exceeding six months and in further addition thereto, such person shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars a day for each day during which such goods are proved to have been in his possession custody or power or in the possession custody or power of any servant or agent of his,"

Objects and Reasons.

It has been considered desirable to make imprisonment part of the penalty for offences against section 10 (5) of the Dangerous Goods Ordinauce. The only words in the new sub-section which are new are "addition thereto such person shall be liable on summary conviction to imprison- ment for any period not exceeding six months and in

further".

C. G. ALABASTER, Attorney General.

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the Arms and Ammuni-

tion, Ordinance, 1900.

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

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Arms and Am- Short title. munition Amendment Ordinance, 1912.

2. Section 28 of the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, Amends 1900, is hereby amended by—

section 28 Ordinance of

1900.

(a.) the deletion of the words ", in default of pay No. 2 of

ment thereof, the Magistrate may order that the offender be imprisoned with or without hard labour, and by the substitution therefor of the words "to imprisonment ".

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(b.) the deletion of the words ", unless the penalty

is sooner paid ".

Objects and Reasons.

It has been deemed desirable in the case of offences against the principal Ordinance that the power of the Magistrates to imprison should not be confined to cases where the offender is unable to pay a fine.

C. G. ALABASTER, Attorney General.