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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 29, 1940. 1717

L. S.

HONG KONG.

No. 33 of 1940.

I assent.

E. F. NORTON,

Officer Administering the Government.

29th November, 1940.

An Ordinance to amend the Betting Duty Ordinance, 1931.

[29th November, 1940.]

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 Betting Duty Short title. Amendment Ordinance, 1940.

2. The Proviso to section 2 of the Betting Duty Ordin- Substitution ance, 1931, is repealed and the following Proviso is sub- for Ordin stituted therefor-

Provided that not less than eighty-nine per cent., or in the case of a club organizing the race not less than seventy- eight per cent., of the total contributions or subscriptions, after deduction of the duty, shall be devoted to prizes for the subscribers.

وو

ance No. 40 of 1931, Proviso.

3. Section 6 (2) of the Betting Duty Ordinance, 1931, Amendment is amended by the substitution of the words ten per cent.' for the words five per cent.".

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4. This Ordinance shall not apply to cash-sweep tickets or cash-sweep chances allocated by list on races run before the 1st day of January, 1941.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 28th day of November, 1940.

of Ordinance No. 40 of 1931, s. 6 (2).

Saving as to races run

before 1st January, 1941.

C. BRAMALL BURGESS,

Deputy Clerk of Councils.