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A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Societies Ordi-

nance, 1911.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:---

and con-

struction.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Societies Amend- Short title ment Ordinance, 1915, and shall be read and coustrued as one with the Societies Ordinuco, 1911, hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance, and this Ordinance and the said Ordinance may be cited together as the Societies Ordi- nances, 1911 and 1915.

2. Section 2 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by Amendment the insertion after the eighteenth line thereof of the follow- of Ordinance ing

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"(f.) any money loan association :”.

No. 47 of 1911, s. 2.

associations.

3. No money loan association which was in existence Previously before or at the commencement of this Ordinance shall for existing any purpose whatsoever be deemed to be or to have been money loan at any time an unlawful society by reason only of anything contained in the Principal Ordinance: provided that noth- ing in this section contained shall affect any action which was begun before the commencement of this Ordinance.

Objects and Reasons.

The object of this bill is to exclude money loan associa- tions from the operation of the Societies Ordinance, 1911.

J. H. KEMP,

A BILL

INTITULED

Attorney General.

An Ordinance to amend the Deportation Ordi-

nances, 1912-1914.

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 Deportation Short title Ordinance, 1915, and shall be read coustrued as one with and con- the Deportation Ordinances, 1912-1914, and the said Ordi- struction. nances and this Ordinance may be cited together as the Deportation Ordinances, 1912-1915.

2.-(1.) Whenever a deportation order shall have been issued against any person it shall be lawful for the Gover- nor, by order under the hand of the Colonial Secretary, to do all or any of the following things

(a.) To order that the person against whom the deportation order has been issued shall depart from the Colony by a particular ship.

(b.) In case it may in the opinion of the Governor be impracticable or inexpedient that such per- son should depart from the Colony by any ship by which he has been ordered to depart to sub- stitute as often as may be necessary another ship as the ship by which such person shall depart from the Colony.

Power to order that a deportee shall depart by a particu- lar ship.