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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 22, 1912.
Short title.
Amendment of section
5 of Principal Ordinance.
Procedure in special circum-
stances where three permanent judges are available,
Addition of
new section
HONGKONG.
No. 39 of 1912.
An Ordinance to amend the Full Court Ordi-
nance, 1912.
I assent to this Ordinance.
LS
F. II. MAY, Governor.
[22nd November, 1912.]
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 Full Court Amendment Ordinance, 1912, and shall be read and con- strued with the Full Court Ordinance, 1912, (hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance), as if it had originally formed part of and had been passed at the same time as the Principal Ordinance and this Ordinance and the Principal Ordinance may be cited together as the Full Court Ordi- nances, 1912.
2. Section 5 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended :-
(a.) By the deletion of the words "and also wben-
ever the Governor by notification in the Gazette. so directs" in the second and third lines thereof.
(b.) By the insertion at the end of the section of
the following proviso :—
"Provided that the provisions of this sec- tion, notwithstanding that three judges in the permanent service of the Colony shall be avail- able, shall also apply whenever and for such periods as the Governor by notification in the Gazette may so direct."
3. The Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the insertion after section 5 thereof of the following new
to Principal section:-
Ordinance.
Provision
for pending
appeals and
motions.
Date of coming
into opera- tion.
"5a. All appeals and all motions for a new trial or to set aside a verdict, finding or judgment, which have been brought or made before the date of the coming into operation of this Ordi- nance and which have not been heard and determined before that date, may be continued before and heard and determined by the Full Court as constituted by this Ordinance in all respects as if such appeals and motions had been brought or made since the date of the coming into operation of this Ordinance."
4. This Ordinance shall come into operation on the first day of December, 1912.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 21st day of November, 1912.
A. G. M. FLETCHER,
Clerk of Councils,
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 22nd
day of November, 1912.
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary,
No. 345.-His Majesty the King has not been advised to exercise his power of dis- allowance with respect to the following Ordinance:-
Ordinance No. 27 of 1912, entitled-An Ordinance to make provision for the
reconstitution of the Full Court.
A. G. M. FLETCHER, Clerk of Councils.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
91at November 1ả12-