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Objects and Reasons.
1. The object of this Bill is to provide for the better control and supervision of timber stores particularly with regard to the danger arising from fire.
2. Clause 2 of the Bill amends section 2 of the principal Ordinance by adding a definition of "Timber store
3. Clause 3 of the Bill repeals section 12 of the principal Ordinance and substitutes a saving clause which makes it clear that the provisions of the Ordinance are supplementary to and not in substitution for those of other enactments relating to the matters regulated by the principal Ordinance.
4. Clause 4 of the Bill adds timber stores to the list of places, trades, businesses or occupations for which a licence is required in the First Schedule.
5. Clauses 5, 6 and 7 of the Bill make provision, by the addition of regulations to the Second Schedule to the prin- cipal Ordinance, for the licensing and control of timber
stores.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
April, 1941.
NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. 8. 165.-It is hereby notified that information has been received from His Britannic Majesty's Consul-General, Canton, to the effect that Hong Kong has been declared an infected port on account of cholera as from 5th April, 1941. All
passengers and crews of all vessels arriving from Hong Kong will be detained for examination for forty-eight hours. Passengers and crews must be in possession of certificates of inocula- tion against cholera issued by the Government Medical Department, Hong Kong.
5th April, 1941.
N. L. SMITH,
Colonial Secretary
No. B. 166.-It is Tientsin to the effect that cholera as from 7th April,
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
hereby notified that information has been received from Hong Kong has been declared an infected port on account of 1941, by Tientsin.
7th April, 1941.
N. L. SMITH,
Colonial Secretary.
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