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Short title.

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 7 of 1926, s. 6

1).

A BILL

[No. 18:-4.6.40.-1.]

An Ordinance to amend the Post Office Ordinance, 1926.

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 Post Office Amend- ment Ordinance, 1940.

2. Sub-section (1) of section 6 of the Post Office Ordin- ance. 1926, is amended by the addition of the following paragraph at the end thereof :-

(v) letters of merchants, owners of vessels or aircraft of merchandise, or the cargo or loading therein, sent by those vessels or aircraft of merchandise or by any person employed by those owners for the carriage of those letters, according to their respective directions, and delivered to the respective persons to whom they are directed, without paying or receiving hire or reward, advantage or profit for the same in anywise.

Objects and Reasons.

The object of this amending Bill is to add a fifth exception to the Post-Master General's exclusive privilege of conveying, sending or receiving letters, corresponding to the exception contained in section 34 (2) (e) of the Post Office Act, 1908, as amended by the First Schedule to the Post Office (Amendment) Act, 1935. (8 Ed. 7, c. 48 and 25 Geo. 5, c. 15).

June, 1940.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.