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(b) persons of sound mind who bave pre- vionsly been included in the jurors lists but have been omitted therefrom on account of age or infirmity ;
(c) barristers and solicitors in actual prae- fice and the clerks of solicitors in actual practice;
(d) persons registered under Section 4 of
the Medical Registration Ordinance, Ordinances 1884, or under the Dentistry Ordi- Nos. 1 of nance, 1914, or under the Pharmacy and 1884, 16 of Poisons Ordinance, 1916;
1914, and
(2) editors, sub-editors and reporters of daily newspapers published in the Colony;
(f) clergymen of the Church of England, Roman Catholic priests, and ministers of any congregation of Protestant Dis- seuters or of Jews, acting as such in the Colony;
(g) professors and other academic officers of the University of Hong Kong ; (4) masters of schools which are certified by the Director of Education as not being vernacular schools :
(7) masters of steamers and local pilots;
and
(/) officers and non-commissioned officers of the Hong Kong Volunteer Corps, and such other members of the Hong Kong Defence Corps as shall have been exempted from jury service by the Governor in Council;
Provided that no person who is in the service of the Crown, and whose whole time is at the disposal of the Crown, shall be entitled to be included in the said register.
(5) If any question arises as to the right of any person to be included in the second part of the said register such question shall be decided by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, subject to an appeal within seven days to the Governor in Council whose decision thereupon shall be final; Provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to vary such decision at any time.
(6) Subject to any rules which may be made under
9 of 1916.
s. 9 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordi- Ordinance
nance, 1903, the second part of the said register No. 1 of 193.
shall be closed to any fresh applications for
registration for fourteen days before the day appointed for any ballot for the election of a member of the Sanitary Board, and shall remain closed until after the balloting in that election shall have been completed.
(7) Every person who at any ballot held under this section applies for a ballot paper in the name of some other person, whether that name be that of a person living or dead or of a fictitious person, or who, having voted once at any such ballot, applies at the same ballot for a ballot paper in his own name, and every person who, for the purpose of procuring his registration in the second part of the register referred to in sub-sections (2) to (6), knowingly makes any false or mis- leading representation, whether verbal or in writing or by conduct, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.
(8) If any question arises as to the validity of any proceeding in any election or intended election of a member of the Sanitary Board, the decision