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Objects and Reasons.

The object of this Bill is to provide for the protection of public lighting appliances throughout the Colony. The existing Ordinance, namely, the Victoria (Lighting) Ordi- nance, 1856, applies only to the City of Victoria, and it has been found desirable that the provisions dealing with the protection against damage to, or improper interference with, public lighting appliances should be extended to the whole Colony,

As the Bill will cover rural as well as urban districts, the second clause has been thrown into a permissive form.

Opportunity has also been taken to introduce some modern technical terms, and to provide that any improper interference with the light of a street lamp shall be punishable even if the light of the lamp be not actually extinguished.

The liability imposed by section 186 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, (No. 1 of 1903), upon the owners of the land adjoining private streets to contribute to the cost of providing lighting apparatus for

the street is saved.

J. H. KEMP,

Attorney General.

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the Stamp Ordinance,

1901.

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 Stamp Ordinance, Short title. 1914, and shall be read and construed as one with the Stamp Ordinance, 1901, (hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance) and this Ordinance and the said Ordinance may be cited together as the Stamp Ordinances, 1901 and 1914.

2. The duty upon a receipt may be denoted by an Provisions as adhesive stamp, which shall be cancelled by the person by to duty upon whom the receipt is given before he delivers it out of his receipts. hands.

of. 54 & 55 Vict, c.'39 s. 101 (2),

Objects and Reasons,

The object of this Bill is to provide that the stamp on a receipt is to be cancelled by the person by whom the receipt is given before the delivers it out of his hands. Under the present law there is no obligation on any one to cancel a receipt stamp. This would enable dishonest persons to use the same stamp over and over again.

J. H. KEMP,

Attorney General.

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