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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 13, 1929.

Repeal of Ordinance No. 10 of 1916, s. 7, and substitu-

tion of new section therefor.

Repeal of Ordinance No. 10 of 1916 s. S.

Amendment

(b) by the repeal of sub-section (2) and by the substitution therefor of the following sub-

section: --

(2) Where, in the opinion of the Super- intendent, any dutiable tobacco shall have been, at the coming into operation of the Tobacco Amendment Ordinance,

1920. present on the licensed premises of any holder of a manufacturer's licence, the Superintendent shall estimate the weight of such tobacco which, in his opinion, was so present, and shall, in his discretion, assign such tobacco to the class of unmanu- factured tobucco or to the class of man- factured tobacco, or partly to the one class and partly to the other class, accord- ing to his opinion of the probable State of its manufacture at the coming into operation of the said Ordinance. In the case of any tobacco so assigned by the Superintendent to the class of manu- factured tobageo he shali further, in his discretion, estimate the weight of unstripped unmanufactured tobacco (containing 10 pounds or more of moisture per 100 pounds weight thereof) from which such tobacco was produced, and the duty payable upon such tobacco shall be 50 cents per pound weight of such unstripped numana- factured tobacco as so estimated. The duty on all dutiable tobacco present in the Colony at the coming into operation of the Tobacco Antendent Ordinance, 1929, except dutiable tobacco duly present in a general bonded or licensed warehouse or on the Railway premises or on board the ship on which it was imported, shall be deemed to have become payable immediately upon the coming into operation of the said Ordinance,

(e) by the repeal of paragraph (a) of sub-section

(3);

(d) by the repeal of sub-section (4).

8. Section 7 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-

Alteration

7.--(1) It shall be lawful for the Legislative of duties by Council by resolution to increase, decrease, Legislative Council. recast, abolish or vary to any extent and in any manner whatsoever, any of the duties im- posed at any time by or under this Ordinance, or to impose new duties on any tobacco there- after to be imported into the Colony or already in the Colony at the time of coming into operation of such resolution.

(2) Every such resolution shall come into operation at the time of the passing thereof unless some other time be specified in such resolution.

9. Section of the princpai Ordinance is repealed.

10. Section 10 of the principal Ordinance is of Ordinance amended by the substitution of the word "time" for the word "day" in the third, fourth, eleventh and thirteenth lines thereof.

No. 10 of 1916, s. 10.