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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 29, 1938.

L. S.

HONG KONG.

No. 9 of 1938.

I assent.

G. A. S. NORTHCOTE, Governor.

29th July, 1938.

An Ordinance to amend the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1931.

[29th July, 1938.]

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 Bankruptcy Short title. Amendment Ordinance, 1938.

2. Section 75 of the Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1931, is Amendment amended by the repeal of sub-section substitution of the following subsection (2) thereof and the

therefor

(2) No person shall be appointed Official Receiver or Deputy Official Receiver unless at the date of such appointment he is a barrister, advocate, solicitor or proctor or a member of the Colonial Legal Service or has successfully passed the examinations required before admission of a barrister, advocate, solicitor, law agent or proctor.

of Ordinance No. 10 of 1931,

s. 75 (2).

3. This Ordinance shall be deemed to have had effect as Commence- from the 25th day of May, 1938.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 28th day of July, 1938.

ment.

B. C. K. HAWKINS,

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

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