582679-1940-Resolution-made-by-the-Legislative-Council-under-section-4-of-the-Law-Revision-Ord--1939 — Page 50

THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JULY 26, 1940.

1189

SHORT TITLE,

Supplementary Schedule,--contd.

AMENDMENT OR REPEAL.

113. The Liquors Ordinance, 1981. (No. 36 of 1931), -contd.

(k) "Net register" means net registered tommage or its equivalent calculated accord- ing to English rules under the Merchant Shipping Acts, 1894 to 1982;

() "Offence" or "offence against this Ordinance" means an offence against any of the provisions of this Ordinance, and includes any act or omission declared or deemed by any of the provisions of this Ordinance to be an offence;

(m) "Person", except so far as relates to the imposition of imprisonment, includes a body corporate and a firm;

(n) "Prescribed" means prescribed by regulations under this Ordinance;

Kowloon-

(6) "Railway" means the Canton Railway, British Section, and "by rail' means by the railway;

(p) "Ship" includes every description of vessel (not being or having the status of a vessel of war) used, or adapted to be used, in navigation or for the carriage of goods or persons:

(q) "Superintendent" means the Super- intendent of Imports and Exports and includes an assistant superintendent:

(7) “Warehouse" means any premises or place or any part thereof appointed by the Superintendent either as a general bonded warehouse or as a licensed warehouse and set apart for storing only dutiable goods.

[cf. 22 Geo. 5.

. 9, s. 74.

(2) In this Ordinance, “British Empire' Definition has the same meaning as in the Empire Preference Ordinance, 1982, and for the purposes of this Ordinance goods shall be deemed to be---

(a) of Empire origin, if they are proved to the satisfaction of the Superintendent to have been grown or produced in, and consigued from, any part of the British Empire; or

(b) of Empire manufacture, if they are proved to the satisfaction of the Super- intendent to have been substantially manu- factured in, and consigned from, any part of the British Empire: But no goods shall be deemed to have been substantially manufactured within the British Empire unless in the opinion of the Superintendent at least one quarter of their value is the result of labour within the British Empire;

(e) of Hong Kong origin or manufactured in this Colony, if they are proved to the satisfaction of the Superintendent to have been substantially produced or manufac- tured, as the case may be, in this Colony.

of goods of Empire origin and

manufacture.

Ordinance No. 32 of 1932,

3.-(1) This Ordinance shall apply to alcoholic Application

liquors, tobacco and hydrocarbon oils.

(2) The Legislative Council may from time to time by resolution published in the

of

Ordinance.

[cf. 18 & 19 Geo. 5, c. 32, s. 19.]

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