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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 135.--The following Bill was read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 13th July, 1916:--

A BILL

INTITULED

Short title and con- struction.

Repeal of

An Ordinance to amend the Revenue Officers

Power of Arrest Ordinance, 1913.

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

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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Revenue Officers Power of Arrest Amendment Ordinance, 1916, and shall be read and construed as one with the Revenue Officers Power of Arrest Ordinance, 1913, hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance,

2. The Schedule to the principal Ordinance is repealed the Schedule and the Schedule hereto is substituted therefor. to Ordinance

No. 6 of 1913

and substitu-

tion of a new Schedule.

Power to amend Schedule.

3. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to amend the said Schedule in any manner whatsoever.

Schedule.

Military Stores (Exportation) Ordinance, 1862-

1915,

Dangerous Goods Ordinance, 1873.

Ships (Prohibition of Sale of Liquor) Ordinance,

1886,

Gambling Ordinance, 1891.

Arms and Ammunition. Ordinauce, 1900.

Post Office Ordinance, 1900,

Liquors Consolidation Ordinance, 1911, Parts II

and III.

Foreign Copper Coin Ordinance, 1912.

Opium Ordinance, 1914.

Post Office Amendment Ordinance, 1915.

Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1916.

Tobacco Ordinance, 1916.

Objects and Reasons,

The objects of this bill are:-

(a.) To bring the schedule to the principal Ordi-

bance up to date.

(.) To add to it the Tobacco Ordinance, 1916. (c.) To give the Governor in Council power to amend the schedule in order to avoid the necessity of passing amending Ordinances in the future.

J. H. KEMP,

Attorney General,