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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bills.

No. S. 65.-The following Bills are published for general information:-

[No. 18-29.12.37.-2.1

A BILL

Short title.

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 30 of 1915, 4th and 6th Schedules, r. 4 (7).

Suspending clause.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance,

1915.

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 Asiatic Emigration Amendment Ordinance, 1938.

2. The Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915, is amended by the repeal of the words "shall be included" and the substitution therefor of the words "shall not be included” in the third line of paragraph (7) of regulation 4 in each of the Fourth and Sixth Schedules thereto respectively.

3. This Ordinance shall not come into operation until His Majesty's confirmation of the same shall have been proclaimed in Hong Kong by the Governor.

Objects and Reasons.

1. The object of this amending Bill is to exclude the sick bay or hospital of emigrant ships licensed under the provisions of the Asiatic Emigration Ordinance, 1915, from the passenger deck space required to be measured for the purpose of determining the number of emigrants to be carried in such ships.

2. The amendment is necessary in order to allow for the proper segregation of sick emigrants, particularly those suffering from infectious or contagious disease, and to prevent the overcrowding which necessarily results under the existing law from such segregation.

3. Clause 2 of the Bill effects the amendment by substituting the words "shall not be included" for the words "shall be included" in the third line of regulation 4 (7) in the Fourth Schedule and the corresponding regulation in the Sixth Schedule to the principal Ordinance.

4. Clause 3 of the Bill is the suspending clause neces- sitated by the proviso to section 2 of the Chinese Passengers Act, 1855 (18 & 19 Vict., c. 104).

J. A. FRASER,

Attorney General.

March, 1938.

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