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a party, or unless the Land Officer shail certify that the capital value of the land affected exceeds $5,000 or that the annual value thereof exceeds $500. There is one exception to this provision, ¿e., when the land in question has been exempted from the Ordinance under section 13 (2). It would appear that the issue of a distress warrant is a proceeding relating to land, within the meaning of the above Ordinance, and that the issue of a distress warrant is a proceeding in the Supreme Court. It would there- fore appear to be impossible to issue a distress warrant for any part of New Territories except in cases falling under 13 (2), or under the exceptions in section 24 of the New Territories Regulation Ordinance. This is inconvenient in the case of New Kowloon, where in many cases the conditions are more similar to those of the old Colony than to those of the New Territories. Accordingly, section 4 of this Ordinance provides that the provisions of the Dis- tress for Rent Ordinance, 1883, shall extend to New Kowloon.

C.S.O.

H. E. POLLOCK,

Attorney General.

1st June, 1928

A BILL

[No. 14:29.5.28.-1.]

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Dentistry Ordi-

nance, 1914.

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 Dentistry Short title. Amendment Ordinance, 1928.

1914.

2. Wherever in sections 4 and 5 of the Dentistry Amendment Ordinance, 1914, or in any Regulation made thereunder, of Ordinance the term, Colonial Secretary, appears, the term, Director No. 16 of of Medical and Sanitary Services, shall be substituted for such term, but any such substitution shall be with- out prejudice to anything heretofore done under the said Ordinance.

Objects and Reasons.

The object of this Ordinance is to transfer, for the sake of convenience of administration, from the Colonial Secretary to the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services the custody of the Dental Register, i.e., the register of dental surgeons entitled to practise in this Colony, together with the receipt of applications for registration therein, and the registration of changes therein, from time to time, whether by way of admis- sion, removal or restoration of dental surgeons.

May, 1928.

H. E. POLLOCK,

Attorney General.