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7. Section 8 of this Ordinance deletes in section 28 of the principal Ordinance the references to the Deputy and Assistant Superintendents of Police, because the matter will be dealt with generally in the new section referred to in the following paragraph.

8. Section 9 of this Ordinance inserts in the principal Ordinance, a new section 33 which provides that the various officers of the police force not below the rank of Assistant Superintendent shall have all the powers con- ferred on the Inspector General of Police by or under the principal Ordinance.

9. The commencement of the Ordinance is postponed until the 1st January, 1930, because that is the day when the new title of the Captain Superintendent of Police will come into use.

28th September, 1929.

C.S.O. 10 in 4299/29.

A BILL

J. H. KEMP,

Attorney General.

[No. 36-21.11.29. —1.]

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Crown Lands

Resumption Ordinance, 1900.

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 Crown Lands Short title. Resumption Amendment Ordinance, 1929.

2. Section 16 of the Crown Lands Resumption Ordi- Repeal of nance, 1900, is repealed and the following section is Ordinance substituted therefor :-

No. 10 of 1900,

16.-(1) All sums of money awarded as 8. 16, and compensation (together with interest thereon substitution as hereinafter mentioned), and all costs and

of new section. remuneration awarded against the Crown, shall be paid out of the general revenue.

(2) It shall be lawful for the Director of Public Works, after the making of any award whether already made or hereafter to be made under this Ordinance, to cause to be inserted in the Gazette a notification that an award has been made, and such notification shall appoint a government officer to pay the com- pensation awarded, and a place at which, and a time within which, such compensation shall be paid.

(3) Any sum of money awarded as com- pensation shall bear interest at the rate of eight per cent per annum from the date of the resumption of the land until the expiration of the time appointed as aforesaid. Except as herein before mentioned, no interest shall be payable on any sum awarded as compensation. No interest shall be payable on any costs or remuneration.