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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 25, 1912.
HONGKONG.
:
No. 33 of 1912.
An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to
Criminal Sessions.
assent to this Ordinance.
F. H. MAY,
LS
Governor.
[25th October, 1912.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the
advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof,
as follows:-
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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Criminal Sessions Short title. Ordinance, 1912.
2. Section 5 (I) of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, Amendment 1899, is hereby amended by the insertion of the words “with of section 5 the exception of the months of January and July" after 9 of 1899.
the word "month" in the second line.
of Ordinance:
3. Section of the Magistrates Amendment Ordinance, Repeal of 1910, is hereby repealed and the following section is section 4 of substituted therefor :-
Ordinance No. 7 of 1910 and
tion therefor.
4. Section 77 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby substitution
repealed and the following section is inserted in of new sec- lieu thereof :- "77.-(1.) If the Magistrate commits the accused to
prison for trial between the tenth and eighteenth days both inclusive of any month save the months of December and June he shall inform or cause the accused to be informed thereof in the words or to the effect following:-
A.B., you stand committed to Gaol mutil the Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court which will be holden next month there to take your trial.'
(2.) If the Magistrate commits the accused to prison for trial on any other day of the month except between the tenth and eighteenth days both inclusive of any month save the months of December and June or if such Magistrate com- mits the accused to prison for trial on any day in the months of December or June he shall inform 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 next Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court there to take your trial.'
Provided always that the Court may of its own mo- tion or on the application either of the Crown or of the accused order the accused to be tried on such date as the Court may fix."
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 24th day of October, 1912.
R. H. CROFTON,
Clerk of Councils,
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 25th day of October, 1912.
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.
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