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Amendment

of section 28 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1900.

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Ordiumuce, 1900, (hereinafter called the Principal Ordi- munce), and this Ordinance and the said Ordinance may be cited together is the Arins and Ammunition Ordinances, 1900-1914.

2. Section 28 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended as follows:-

(a.) by the deletion of the figures "250" in the 6th line thereof and by the substitution of the figures" 1,000" therefor;

(6.) by the deletion of the figure 3 in the 7th line thereof and by the substitution of the

** 12 11 figures

therefor.

Objects und Reasons.

The existing penalities with regard to the contravention of the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1900, relative to smuggling of arms and an.munition appear unfortunately to have little, if any, deterrent effect.

It has been observed with regret that the illicit intro- duction of weapons and cartridges continues rife, and the object of this Ordinance is to increase the penalty in order to endeavour to check in some measure this dangerous traffic.

Jonn A. BUCKNILL, Attorney General.

No. S. 18.-The following Bill, which will be read a first time at the next meeting of the Legislative Council, is published for general information.

A. G. M. FLETCHER,

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

22nd January, 1914.

A

BILL

Clerk of Councils.

Short title.

No. 15 of 1913.

Power to

Governor-in

Council to anspend operation of sections 4 and 6 of Principal Ordinance,

:

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the Foreign Silver and -

Nickel Coin Ordinance, 1913.

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 Foreign Silver and Nickel Coin (Amendment) Ordinance, 1914, and shall be read and construed as one with the Foreign Silver and Nickel Coin Ordinance, 1913, (hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance), and this Ordinance and the said Ordinance may be cited together as the Foreign Silver and Nickel Coin Ordinances, 1913 and 1914.

2. It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Conneil to order by notification published in the Gazette that the whole or any part of the provisions of sections 4 and 6 of the Principal Ordinance shall be suspended for such period and in such parts of the Colony ns may in the opinion of the Governor-in-Council be desirable.

Objects and Reasons.

The object of this Bill is to give power to the Gov- ernor-in-Council to suspend temporarily any of the pro- visions of sections 4 und 6 of the Foreign Silver and Nickel Coin Ordinance, 1913.

Section 4 of that Ordinance refers to the importation into the Colony of Foreign Silver or Nickel Coin and section 6 relates to the being in possession of such coinage,

JOHN A. BUCKNILL,

Attorney General,

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