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The Hongkong Government Gazette
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Dublished by Authority.
SATURDAY, APRIL 30, 1921.
The following Notifications are published,
By command,
E. D. C. WOLFE,
Colonial Secretary.
EXECUTIVE COUNCIL.
No. 205.
Regulations made by the Officer Administering the Government in Council under sections 4 and 21 of the Stamp Ordinance, 1921, Ordinance No. 8 of 1921, on the 30th day of April, 1921.
stamps.
The adhesive stamps to be used on bills of exchange, circular notes, letters "BE" of credit, "traveller's cheques", and on the instruments specified in Heading 41 of the Schedule to this Ordinance shall be overprinted with the letters "BE".
All instruments relating to land in the New Territories executed in pur- New Torri- suance of the provisions of the New Territories Regulation Ordinance, 1910, shall be exempt from stamp duty.
tories land.
formis: up to
Cheques stamped with an impressed and dated stamp of the value of five old cheque cents shall be deemed to have been duly stamped if signed before the 30th day 30th June, of June, 1921.
1921.
forms:
Cheques stamped with an impressed and dated stamp of the value of five Old cheque cents, if signed after the 30th day of June, 1921, shall be deemed to have been after 30th duly stamped if an adhesive revenue stamp of the value of five cents shall have June, 1921. been affixed thereto before payment and shall have been effectively cancelled.
to practise
Certificates to practise during the year 1921, taken out by persons practis- Certificates ing at the commencement of the Ordinance, shall be deemed to have been for 1921. duly taken out and stamped if taken out and stamped within one month after the commencement of this Ordinance. Applications for such certificates should be made to the Collector (Colonial Treasurer).
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
30th April, 1921.
S. B. B. McELDERRY,
Clerk of Councils.
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