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Objects and Reasons,

1. Section 7 (1) of the Ordinances and Regulations of Hong Kong (1937 edition) Ordinance, No. 51 of 1936, provides inter alia that--

The Ordinances of Hong Kong (1937 edition) shall include all the Ordinances in force on the 1st day of January, 1938, and also any unrepealed Ordinance passed before but not brought into force on or before that date

and section 8 that--

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The editor shall further prepare and issue of the regulations in force in the Colony on the 1st day of January, 1938,

2. Since 1st January, 1938, new legislation has been enacted involving the repeal of certain Ordinances and regulations to which the foregoing sections apply and which, since they are now no longer effective, it is unnecessary and undesirable to include in the volumes of the revised edition still to be issued.

3. Clause 2 of this Bill adds to section 7 of the principal Ordinance a proviso enabling the editor in his discretion, on making an appropriate note, to omit from any such volume any Ordinance to which sub-section (1) of that section applies but which has been repealed and replaced by an Ordinance of later date before the issue of that volume.

4. Clause 3 of this Bill, by an addition to section 8 of the principal Ordinance, makes a similar provision in the case of regulations in force on 1st January, 1938, but since repealed and replaced by others.

5. Clause 5 provides that a copy of the Ordinance of which this is a Bill shall be printed at the beginning of every volume of the new edition of the Ordinances and the Regulations in which the editor exercises the powers conferred by clause 2 or 3.

April, 1939.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.