Notice of result of committal proceedings. 1967, c.80, s.4.
87B. If a magistrate commits any person for trial
or determines to discharge him, the magistrates' clerk
shall, on the day on which the committal proceedings
are concluded or the next day, cause to be displayed in
a part of the court house to which the public have
access a notice in English and in Chinese
(a) in either case giving that person's name,
address and age (if known) ;
(b) in a case where the magistrate commits him,
stating the charge on which he is committed
and the court to which he is committed;
(c) in a case where the magistrate determines to
discharge him, describing the offence charged
and stating that the magistrate has so
determined."
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Consequential amendments
to Defamation Ordinance. (Cap. 21.)
6.
Section 13 of the Defamation Ordinance is amended by
(a) being renumbered as subsection (1) thereof; and
(b) inserting the following new subsection -
"1967, c.80, s.5.
(2) Any report in a newspaper, and
any broadcast report, of committal proceedings
in a case where publication is permitted by
virtue only of subsections (5) and (6) of