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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JANUARY 29, 1915.

HONGKONG.

No. 1 of 1915.

An Ordinance to amend the Stamp Ordinance,

1901.

I assent to this Ordinance.

LS

F. H. MAY, Governor.

Short title.

Governor-in- Council to

have power to allow

stamping

after execu- tion.

Amendment

of Ordinance

No. 16 of 1901, s. 31.

[29th January, 1915.]

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 Ordi- nance, 1915, and shall be read and construed as one with the Stamp Ordinance, 1901, hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance, and with the Stamp Ordinance, 1914.

nance

2. Notwithstanding anything in the Principal Ordi- contained, the Governor-in-Council shall have power, in any special case in which the circumstances may appear to him to be sufficiently exceptional, to authorise the Collector to stamp after execution any document what- soever liable to stamp duty under the Principal Ordinance or any Ordinance amending the same, either without pay- ment of any penalty or subject to the following penal- ties :-

(a.) if within one month of execution, double the

amount of deficient duty;

(b.) if within two months of execution, four times

the amount of deficient duty; and

(c.) if after two months after execution, ten times

the amount of deficient duty.

3. Section 31 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the repeal of the words "or without the con- sent of the Attorney General ".

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 28th day of January, 1915.

M. J. BREEN,

Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 29th day of January, 1915.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

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