THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 21, 1910.
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No. 145.-His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government has given his assent, in the name and on behalf of His Majesty the King, to the following Ordinances passed by the Legislative Council:-
Ordinance No. 7 of 1910.- -An Ordinance further to amend the Magistrates Ordin-
ance, 1890.
Ordinance No. 8 of 1910,-An Ordinance to amend the Squatters Ordinance,
1890.
HONGKONG.
No. 7 OF 1910.
An Ordinance further to amend the Magistrates
Ordinance, 1890.
LS
F. H. MAY,
Officer Administering the Government,
[21st May, 1910.]
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as
follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Magistrates Short title. Amendment Ordinance, 1910.
2. Whenever the expression "the Principal Ordinance" Construc- is used in this Ordinance the same shall be construed as tion. applying to the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890.
3. Section 75 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amendinenz amended:-
of section 75 of the
Ordinance.
(a.) by the omission of the word "next" in the Principal
third line of sub-section (1) thereof; (.) by the omission of the word "next" in the
sixth line of sub-section (2) thereof.
4. Section 77 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amendment repealed and the following section is inserted in licu of section 77 thereof :--
of the
Principal Ordinance.
*77.-(1). If the Magistrate commits the accused Informing to prison for trial between the tenth and eight- accused of eenth days of any month inclusive he shall in- committal, form or cause the accused to be informed thereof
in the words or to the effect following: A.B., you stand committed to Gaol until the Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court commencing on the eighteenth day of next month there to take your trial,'
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(2.) If the Magistrate commits the accused
prison for trial on any other day of the month except between the tenth and eighteenth days of the month inclusive as aforesaid he shall inform or
cause the accused to be informed thereof in the words or to the effect follow-
ing:-
A.B., you stand committed to Gaol until the next Criminal Sessious of the Supreme Court there to take your trial.'
Provided always that the Court may of its own motion or on the application either of the Crown or of the acensed order the accused to be tried on such date as the Court may fix."