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Ord. No. 49/80
Amendment of section 19.
Amendment of
First Schedule
to Judicial
Service
Commission
Ordinance.
(Cap. 92.)
*Discharge
of jurors.
Majority verdicts.
CORONERS (AMENDMENT)
12A. (1) A coroner may at any time during an inquiry discharge a juror
(a) where, in the interests of justice, it appears to the
coroner expedient to do so; or
(b) in the interests of the juror.
(2) In the event of the death or discharge by a coroner under subsection (1) of a juror during an inquiry, the inquiry shall be proceeded with in a like manner as if the full number of jurors had continued on the jury.
(3) Where a member of a jury is discharged by a coroner under subsection (1) or dies—
(a) subject to paragraph (b), the jury shall be con- sidered as remaining properly constituted for all the purposes of the inquiry; and
(b) if the coroner considers it in the interests of justice to do so, he may discharge the remaining jurors and order a fresh inquiry to be held.
12B. (1) In the event of any of the jurors, after reasonable consultation, dissenting from the residue, the verdict of a majority shall be taken to be the verdict of the jury.
(2) If in any inquiry it seems for any cause to be desirable the coroner may direct the jury to consider their verdict further.".
7. Section 19 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting "As soon as practicable after the conclusion of an inquiry" and substituting the following-
"If, after the conclusion of an inquiry, the Attorney General so requests,".
8. The First Schedule to the Judicial Service Commission Ordinance is amended by inserting after "District Judge" the following
1980.
"Coroner".
Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 23rd day of July
LORNA LEUNG,
Clerk to the Legislative Council.
This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.
LORNA LEUNG,
Clerk to the Legislative Council.
PHARMACY AND POISONS (AMENDMENT) Ord. No. 50/80
L.S.
HONG KONG
No. 50 of 1980
I assent.
JACK CATER, Acting Governor.
24 July 1980.
An Ordinance to amend the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance.
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Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent
of the Legislative Council thereof.
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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pharmacy and Poisons (Amend- Short title and ment) Ordinance 1980 and shall come into operation on a day to be commencement. appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette.
2.
Section 2(1) of the principal Ordinance is amended-
Amendment of section 2.
(a) by inserting after the definition of "sale by way of wholesale (Cap. 138.)
dealing" the following definition-
""sell" includes offer or expose for sale, and "seller" has the
corresponding meaning;";
(b) in the definition of "Secretary" by deleting the full stop and
substituting a semicolon; and
(c) by inserting after the definition of "Secretary" the following
definition-
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"Tribunal" has the meaning assigned to it by section 30.".
The principal Ordinance is amended by adding after section 4 Addition of the following--
new section 4A.
"Power of Board to
establish
executive committees.
4A. (1) The Board may establish such number of executive committees as it may deem fit for the purpose of performing such functions relating to-
(a) the registration, licensing or certification under this Ordinance of persons, poisons or pharmaceutical products; or
(b) the entering of the names of persons on the list kept under section 25 of persons entitled to conduct the retail sale of poisons included in Part II of the Poisons List,
as may be prescribed in respect of any such committee by regulations made under section 29.
(2) A committee established under this section shall consist of--
(a) such member of the Board as the Board may appoint to be chairman of the committee; and