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Short title.

Amendment

of Ordinance

No. 32 of

1932, s. 2 as

A BILL

INTITULED

[No. 1:- 1.3.38.-1.}

An Ordinance to amend the Empire Preference Ordinance,

1932.

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 Empire Pre- ference Amendment Ordinance, 1938.

2. Section 2 of the Empire Preference Ordinance, 1932, as amended by the Empire Preference Amendment Ordinance, 1934, is further amended by the insertion, in the second line amended by of the definition of "The British Empire" in the first paragraph thereof, of the word "Burma," immediately after the word "India,".

Ordinance

No. 31 of

1934, s. 2.

Objects and Reasons.

As Burma has now been separated from India, the former country is no longer covered by the definition of "The British Empire" contained in section 2 of the principal Ordinance, as amended by the Empire Preference Amendment Ordinance, 1934.

Clause 2 of this Bill inserts the word "Burma," im- mediately after the word India,' in that definition, in pursuance of instructions given by the Secretary of State for the Colonies in his circular despatch of 23rd December, 1937.

March, 1938.

J. A. FRASER,

Attorney General.