HONG KONG
No. 15 or 1969.
I assent.
Enclosure 20! 1
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Governor.
27th March, 1969.
An Ordinance to amend further the Criminal Procedure Ordinance.
[28th March, 1969.]
Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and
consent of the Legislative Council thereof.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Ordinance 1969.
2. Section 9 of the principal Ordinance is amended in sub- section (2) by deleting "the assigning of solicitors and counsel as legal aids, the fees and costs to be allowed therefor,".
3.
The principal Ordinance is amended by adding in Part I after section 9 the following new section-
"Legal aid in criminal
cases.
[Cf. Cap. 91, 8. 28(2).]
9A. (1) The Chief Justice may, with the ap- proval of the Legislative Council, make rules pro- viding for the granting of legal aid in criminal cases to persons of limited means which rules, in particular, may-
(a) make provision as to the information to be given by a person seeking or receiving legal aid;
Short title.
Amendment of section 9.
(Cap. 221.)
Addition of new section 9A.