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rates under section 36 of the principal Ordinance, to be recovered summarily with interest at eight per cent. before a magistrate.

2. The amendment of section 43 of the principal Ordin- ance, made by section 3 of Ordinance No. 16 of 1931, deleted a provision in the opening words of that section, limiting the time for recovery of penalties for offences against the Ordin- ance to two years. The effect of that amendment was to bring into operation section 20 of the Magistrates Ordinance, No. 41 of 1932, limiting the time for the making of a complaint or the laying of information to six months from the time when the matter of such complaint or information arose. In consequence certain offences have gone unpunished; clause 2 of this Bill adds a new sub-section (8) to section 43, extending the time within which proceedings may be taken to six years from the date of the offence.

3. Clause 3 of this Bill adds a new section 43A to the principal Ordinance, enabling the Assessor on the conviction of any person for an offence under section 43 (1) or (2), to make a new valuation of the tenement in respect of which the offence was committed, and making rates payable upon that valuation from the date of the conviction until the next assessment.

September, 1938.

J. A. FRASER,

Attorney General.

WATERWORKS BILL.

No. S. 375.-It is hereby notified for general information that it is proposed to make the following amendments to a Bill intituled "An Ordinance to provide for and regulate the supply of water" which was read a second time on 15th September, 1938, and published as amended in Committee in the Gazette as No. S. 346.

It is proposed to recommit but not to republish the Bill. This notice is in lieu of republication.

Amendments.

(a) Substitute "seven days" for "ten days" in the third paragraph of regulation 2

in the Schedule.

(b) Delete the proviso to the first part of Appendix I under the heading "Price of water" and substitute:

Provided that the above rates shall be increased by twenty-five cents in the case of any sum under five dollars, and by five per cent. in that of any other sum, payment of which is not made on or before the date notified by the water authority in his account as the date by which payment of such sum is to be made: And provided also that a fraction of any such increase which is less than ten cents shall be reckoned as ten

cents.

J. A. FRASER,

Attorney General.

7th October, 1938.