Sessional_Paper_1907 — Page 76

No. 1.

REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS

QF THE

STANDING LAW COMMITTEE

at a Meeting held in the Attorney General's Chambers, Hongkong, on the 27th May, 1907.

PRESENT:

The Honourable the Attorney General, (HENRY HESSY JOHNSTON GOMPERTZ), Chairman.

the Captain Superintendent of Police, (FRANCIS JOSEPH Badeley).

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Dr. Ho KAI, M.B., C.M., C.M.G.

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Mr. WEI YUK.

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Mr. HENRY EDWARD POLLOCK, K.C.

I, HENRY HESSY JOHNSTON GOMPERTZ, Attorney General, Chairman of the Stand- ing Law Committee, do hereby certify that the Standing Law Committee on the 27th day of May, 1907, considered clause by clause a Bill entitled An Ordinance to amend the Bills of Exchange Ordinance, 1885," and unanimously recommended that the Bill in question be reported to the Legislative Council with the following amendments, namely

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1. That the Title of the Bill be amended by substituting for the words "Bills of

Exchange Ordinance, 1885," the words "Law relating to Bills of Exchange.

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2. That clause 1 of the Bill be amended by substituting for all the words in the clause after the words "cited as in the first line the words "the Bills of Exchange (Amendment) Ordinance, 1907, and this Ordinance and the Bills of Exchange Ordinance, 1885, may be cited together as the Bills of Exchange Ordinances 1885 and 1907."

3. That clause 2 of the Bill be amended by substituting for the words "the Prin- cipal Ordinance" in the first line the words "The Bills of Exchange Ordinance, 1885," and by substituting for the word "proviso" in the third line the word "sub-section" and by substituting for the words "Provided always that a banker shall be deemed to receive" in the 4th and 5th lines the words banker receives."

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4. That a clause be added to the Bill as follows:

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"3. Any draft or order drawn upon a banker for a sum of money pay- able to order on demand which shall, when presented for payment, purport to be indorsed by the person to whom the same shall be drawn payable, shall be a sufficient authority to such banker to pay the amount of such draft or order to the bearer thereof; and it shall not be incumbent on such banker to prove that such indorsement or any subsequent indorsement was made by or under the direction or authority of the person to whom the said draft or order was or is made payable either by the drawer or any indorser thereof.”

H. H. J. GOMPERTZ,

Chairman.

Laid before the Legislative Council, and adopted on the 6th day of June, 1907.

A. G. M. FLETCHER,

Clerk of Councils.