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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 10, 1938.
BILLS.
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6. Rating Amendment Bill.-The Attorney General addressed the Council and moved the First reading of a Bill intituled 'An Ordinance to amend the Rating Ordinance, 1901."
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question--put and agreed to.
Bill read a first time.
7. Stamp Amendment Bill.The Attorney General moved the Second reading of a
Bill intituled “An Ordinance to amend the Stamp Ordinance, 1921.”
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a second time.
Council in Committee on the Bill.
On Council resuming, the Attorney General reported that the Bill had passed through Committee without amendment, and moved that it be read a third time.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a third time and passed.
8. Waterworks Bill.-The Attorney General moved that the Bill intituled "An Ordinance to provide for and regulate the supply of water" be recommitted to Committee of the whole Conncil for further amendments, which had already been published in the Gazette.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Council in Committee on the Bill.
The Attorney General moved the following amendments:-
(a) Substitute seven days" for ten days" in the third paragraph of
regulation 2 in the Schedule.
(b) Delete the proviso to the first part of Appendix I under the heading
"Price of water" and substitute:
Provided that the above rates shall be increased by twenty-five cents in the case of any sum under five dollars, and by five per cent. in that of any other sum, payment of which is not made on or before the date notified by the water authority in his account as the date by which payment of such sum is to be made: And provided also that a fraction of any such increase which is less than ten cents shall be reckoned as ten cents.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
On Council resuming, the Attorney General moved that the amended Bill, the amendments of which had already appeared in the Gazette, be read a third time in substitution for the Bill as read a second time.
The Colonial Secretary seconded.
Question-put and agreed to.
Bill read a third time and passed.
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