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No.11

HONGKONG.

REPORT OF PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

STANDING LAW COMMITTEE

at a Meeting held in the Attorney General's Chambers, Hongkong, on the 27th May, 1911.

Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor, June 1st, 1911.

PRESENT:

The Honourable the Attorney General, (C. G. ALABASTER), Chairman.

the Captain Superintendent of Police, (F. W. Lyons).

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

Mr. H. E. POLLOCK, K.C.

The Honourable Mr. E. A. HEWETT.

ABSENT.

The Statute Laws (New Revised Edition) Bill, 1911.

On the 18th May, 1911, a Bill entitled "An Ordinance to authorise the publication of a Newly Revised Edition of the Revised Edition of the Statute Laws of the Colony pre- pared in virtue of Ordinance No. 12 of 1900" was referred to the Standing Law Committee under Rule 43 of the Standing Rules and Orders of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.

In accordance with the provisions of Rule 40 of the aforesaid Rules, I the Chairman of the said Committee hereby certify that the said Bill has been considered clause by clause in the presence of four members of the Committee, and that in the opinion of the Committee the said Bill may be dealt with by the Council in the same manner as a Bill reported on by a Committee of the whole Council.

The Committee recommend that the Bill be read a third time and passed in the form in which it appears in the document marked A attached to this report. A document marked B is also attached to this report shewing in brackets matter in the text of the Bill as referred which the Committee suggest should be deleted and in italics matter in the text which the Committee suggest should be inserted. When the Bill was referred it was without marginal notes. The Committee suggest the adoption of the marginal notes appearing in the docu- ment marked B.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Chairman.

Laid before the Legislative Council, and adopted on the 1st day of June, 1911.

R. H. CROFTON,

Clerk of Councils.