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Published by Authority.

No. 40.

號十四第

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 9тп SEPTEMBER, 1893.

日九十二月七年巳癸 日九初月九年三十九百八千

VOL. XXXIX.

簿九十三第

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION. -No. 327. His Excellency the Governor has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of the Queen, to

the following Ordinance passed by the Legislative Council:-

Ordinance No. 12 of 1893.—An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, concerning Statu- tory Declarations.

By Command,

Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 4th September, 1893.

G. T. M. O'BRIEN, Colonial Secretary.

No. 12 OF 1893.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, concerning Statu- tory Declarations.

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WILLIAM ROBINSON,

Governor.

[4th September, 1893.]

WHEREAS, by an Act of Parliament made and passed

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in the sixth year of the reign of his late Majesty King WILLIAM the Fourth intituled "An Act to repeal an "Act of the present Session of Parliament intituled An "Act for the more effectual abolition of Oaths and Affirma- “tious taken and made in various Departments of the State "and to substitute Declarations in lieu thereof and for the more entire suppression of voluntary and extra-judicial "Oaths and Affidavits and to make other provisions for "the abolition of unnecessary Oaths" but now known as "The Statutory Declarations Act 1835," after reciting that it might be necessary and proper in many cases not therein specified to require confirmation of written instruments or allegations or proof of debts or of the execution of deeds or other matters it was enacted (amongst other things) that it should and might be lawful for any Justice of the Peace, Notary Public or other officer then by law authorised to administer an oath, to take and receive the declaration of any person voluntarily making the same before him in the form in the Schedule thereto aunexed, and that if any declar- ation so made should be false or untrue in any material particular the person wilfully making such false declaration should be deemed guilty of a misdemeanour ; And whereas it has been the practice for Justices of the Peace and others