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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 10TH MAY, 1890.

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 195.

The following Bills, which were read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council hel this day, are published for general information.

Council Chamber, Hongkong, 9th May, 1890.

Repeal of Ord. No. 39 of 1889.

Amendment of Ordinance No. 14 of 1662.

Additional formalties for declarations.

DRAFT BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 32 of 1889 and amend Ordinance No. 14 of 1862, entitled An Ordinance for granting Patents for Inventions within this Colony.

BE

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

1. Ordinance No. 32 of 1889 is hereby repealed, but such repeal shall not affect anything lawfully done or any right acquired thereunder.

2. The words "the Patent Law Amendment Act 1852 of the Imperial Farliament" in section three of Or- dinance No. 14 of 1862 are hereby repealed and, instead thereof, there shall be substituted and read the words The Patents Designs and Trade Marks Acts 1883 to 1888 or any Rules made thereunder.

3. Every declaration to be made pursuant to section one of Ordinance No. 14 of 1862 shall be made before some person duly authorised to administer an oath in the country where it is made, and every person who shall knowingly make any untrue or false statement in any such declaration shall, upon conviction, be liable to the penalties of prejury.

Funishment for talsifica- tion of

accounts, &c.

Intention to defraud, kufi- cient inform- ation.

Ordinance to be read with Ord. No. 7 of 1865.

Short title.

DRAFT BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the Law with reference to the Falsification of Accounts.

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the law so as to

punish the falsification by clerks, officers, servants, and others of their employers' accounts, books, writings, or documents: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. That if any clerk, officer, or servant, or any person employed or acting in the capacity of a clerk, officer, or servant, shall wilfully and with intent to defraud, destroy, alter, mutilate, or falsify any book, paper, writing, valuable security, or account which belongs to or is in the possession of his employer, or has been received by him for or ou behalf of his employer, or shall wilfully and with intent to defraud make or concur in making any false entry in, or omit or alter, or concur in omitting or altering, any material particular from or in any such book, or any document or account, then in every such case the person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and be liablegto be impri- soned with or without hard labour for any term not exceed- ing seven years.

2. It shall be sufficient in any information under this Ordinance to allege a general intent to defraud, without naming any particular person intended to be defrauded.

3. This Ordinance shall be read as one with Ordinance No. 7 of 1865.

4. This Ordinance may be cited as The Falsification of Accounts Ordinance, 1890.

F. A. HAZELAND,

Acting Clerk of Councils.