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[No. 23-4.11.41.-2.]

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to authorize the Governor to borrow money for the purpose of making a gift to His Majesty's Govern- ment in the United Kingdom of sums to be expended within the Colony for purposes in aid of the prosecution of the war; and to provide for the issue of Hong Kong War Savings Certificates for this purpose and for other matters incidental thereto.

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

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Hong Kong War Savings Certificates Ordinance, 1941.

Short title.

Interpreta-

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise re- quires, the following expressions have the meanings assigned tion. to them respectively, that is to say:-

CC

Accountant-General means the Accountant-General

of the Colony of Hong Kong;

Kong;

C

Auditor" means the Auditor of the Colony of Hong

certificate means a certificate issued under the name of a Hong Kong war savings certificate by the Government for the purpose of raising money authorized to be raised by this Ordinance;

"committee in relation to a person of unsound mind, includes a person authorized under section 3 of the Lunacy Ordinance, 1906, to whom the charge of the estate is com- mitted;

Postmaster General the Colony of Hong Kong;

Financial Secretary

the Colony of Hong Kong;

means the Postmaster General of

means the Financial Secretary of

guardian means in the absence of a person declared or appointed to be a guardian by or under any law, or appointed by deed any adult with whom the minor is residing and by whom he is maintained;

"minor means a person who has not attained the age of eighteen years;

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"multiple certificate " means a certificate representing any number of unit certificates as provided in sub-section (4) of section 14, and entitling the holder to receive the aggregate amount of the sums repayable in respect of that number of unit certificates;

unit certificate

means a certificate of unit value as provided in sub-section (1) of section 14.

Ordinance.

No. 3 of 1906.

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