Committee stage of Bills
Council went into Committee.
PUBLIC FINANCE (AMENDMENT) BILL 1988
Clauses 1 and 2 were agreed to.
ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (MISCELLANEOUS AMENDMENTS) BILL 1988
Clauses 1 to 3 were agreed to.
Clause 4
Attorney General ·
Sir.
I move that clause 4 be amended as proposed in the paper circulated to Members. Members may recall that I indicated, when moving the Second Reading of this bill, that I
The might be moving an amendment to this clause the Committee.
Stages,
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As it stands at present, clause 4(a) of the Bill would simply repeal section 46 of the District Court Ordinance. That section, which can trace its ancestry back to a provision relating to small debts which was first enacted in Hong Kong in
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