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Short title.

Repeal of Ordinance No. 4 of 1917.

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À BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to repeal the Anglo-Portuguese

Commercial Treaty Ordinance, 1917.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Anglo-Portu- guese Commercial Treaty Ordinance, 1918.

2. The Anglo-Portuguese Commercial Treaty Ordi- nance, 1917, is repealed.

Objects and Reasons.

The Anglo-Portuguese Commercial Treaty Ordinance, 1917, was passed in order to enable the Anglo-Portu- guese Commercial Treaty to come into operation as regards the Colony of Hongkong, but, in view of diffi- culties which have arisen in connection with the appli- cation outside the United Kingdom of Article 6 of the Treaty, His Majesty's Government have now decided that the Colonies and Protectorates shall not adhere to the Treaty. It is therefore necessary to repeal the above Ordinance.

29th June, 1918.

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BILL

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J. H. KEMP,

Attorney General,

Short title

and con- struction.

Ordinance No. 4 of 1914.

Ordinance No. 27 of 1917.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Opium Ordinance,

1914, and the Opium Ordinance, 1917.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Opium Ordi- nance, 1918, and shall be read and construed as one with the Opium Ordinance, 1914, and with the Opium Ordinance, 1917, and the said Ordinances and this Ordinance may be cited together as the Opium Ordi- nances, 1914 to 1918.

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 4 of 1914, s. 57.

Amoudment

of Ordinance No. 27 of 1917, s. 2.

2. Section 57 of the Opium Ordinance, 1914, is amended by the substitution of the letter "a" for the figure 1" in the ninth line thereof, of the letter "" for the figure "2" in the eleventh line thereof, and of the letter ફ્ર for the figure "3" in the thirteenth line thereof.

3. Section 2 of the Opium Ordinance, 1917, is amended by the insertion of the word “so between the word “mark" and the word "resembling" in the third line thereof, and by the insertion of the words "as to constitute a colourable imitation thereof" between the words dross opium" and the words "or has" in the fifth line thereof,