(Prohibition) Act (1921)
Amendment Bill.

MEMORANDUM.

This Bill is designed to prevent the sale of plumage

illegally imported.

Act (1921) Amendment.

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BILL

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Amend the Importation of Plumage (Prohibi- A.D. 1927. tion) Act, 1921.

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E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, 5 as follows:

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1.-(1) Section one of the Importation of Plumage Amendment (Prohibition) Act, 1921, shall be amended by adding of 11 & 12 at the end of subsection (1) the words "or sell or offer for sale such plumage."

By adding after subsection (2) the words :

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(3) Any person guilty of selling or offering for sale plumage in contravention of subsection (1) of section one of this Act shall, upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding twentyfive pounds and, in addition, the Court shall order the plumage, in respect of which an offence has been committed, to be forfeited."

Geo. 5. c. 16.

2. This Act shall be cited as the Importation of Short title. Plumage (Prohibition) Act (1921) Amendment Act, 1927.

MEMORANDUM.

This Bill is complementary to a draft "Measure which it is proposed separately to pass under the Church of England Assembly (Powers) Act, 1919, otherwise known as the Enabling Act, so as to provide for the dissolution of the legal union between the Church of England and the Church of England in India, and for the last-mentioned Church becoming a voluntary association legally entitled to manage its own affairs (on the basis of "consensual compact "), like other churches in the same communion in the self-governing Dominions. the United States, China and Japan. Under the Act referred to a Measure may relate to any matter concerning the Church of England, but in regard to certain subjects connected with the proposed changes it is necessary or desirable that they should be brought before Parliament in the more usual form of a Parliamentary Bill.

In the first place, if the changes are to be made, certain provisions in the Government of India Act, Part X (Ecclesiastical Establishment "), which relate to the present legal union, need to be repealed; the present Bill proposes to effect this as from "the date of severance," a day not less than two years or more than three years after the coming into operation of the Measure. From the same date all Letters Patent of the Crown by or under the authority of which any Bishop or Archdeacon has been appointed to his office in India will (to the extent stated in the Bill) cease to have effect, and no future appointments or nominations will be made by the Crown of Bishops in the Indian Church.

Further, there are various arrangements in regard to church property which will require to be placed on a proper footing. The Bill makes suitable provision in regard to these and in particular provides for the incorporation of Indian Church Trustees and the vesting in them of specified property, while ensuring that beneficiaries of trusts shall be protected in their rights.

Besides these and other matters covered by the Bill which it is unnecessary here to detail, the Bill contains.