Honourable Acting Crown Attorney : I beg to move that the Committee rise,
Council resume, and the President report to the House.
 Honourable Acting Colonial Treasurer : I beg to second the motion.
 Question put and agreed to.

 Council Resumes.
 President: I beg to report that a Bill for an Ordinance to amend the
Maintenance Ordinance, 1949, passed through the Committee stage with one
amendment, a typographical error in Form G of the Schedule-the word "the"
deleted and the word me substituted.
 Honourable Acting Crown Attorney: I beg to move that the President's
Report be adopted.
 Honourable Acting Colonial Treasurer : I beg to second the motion.
 Question put and agreed to.
 Honourable Acting Crown Attorney : I beg leave to move that the Bill for
an Ordinance shortly entitled the Maintenance (Amendment) Ordinance, 1950, be
read a third time and passed.
 Honourable Acting Colonial Treasurer : I beg to second the motion.
 Question put and agreed to.
 Bill read a third time and passed.

BRITISH NATIONALITY ACT (OFFENCES, PENALTIES AND FEES) BILL.
 President: I now call upon the Honourable Crown Attorney to move the
second reading of a Bill for an Ordinance shortly entitled the British Nationality
Act (Offences, Penalties and Fees) Ordinance, 1950,
 Honourable Acting Crown Attorney : I beg leave to move that a Bill for an
Ordinance shortly entitled the British Nationality Act (Offences, Penalties and
Fees) Ordinance, 1950, be read a second time.
 Honourable Acting Colonial Treasurer : I beg to second the motion.
 Question put. and agreed to.
 Bill read a second time.
 Honourable Acting Crown Attorney : I beg to move that the Council resolve
itself into a Committee of the whole Council to consider the Bill clause by clause.
 Honourable Acting Colonial Treasurer : I beg to second the motion.
 Question put and agreed to.

 In Committee.
Clause 2-Interpretation.
 Question put and agreed to.
Clause 3-Offences and Penalties.
 Question put and agreed to.
Clause 4-Regulations with respect to Fees, etc.
 Question put and agreed to.
Appendix.
 Question put and agreed to.
Clause 1-Short Title and Enacting Clause.
 Honourable Acting Crown Attorney : This tends to create retrospective
penalties, and as far as my recollection goes the Secretary of State is very much
against that. I think the Words and shall be deemed to have come into forbe on
the ist day of January, 1949 could be left out. We can put by piociamdtioi
in the Gazette or leave it as it is.