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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 24, 1913.
HONGKONG.
No. 28 OF 1913.
An Ordinance to amend the Magistrates Ordi-
nance, 1890.
I assent to this Ordinance.
CLAUD SEVERN,
. Short title.
Repeal of section 77 and sub- stitution of new section therefor. Informing accused of committal.
LS
Officer Administering the Government.
[24th October, 1913.]
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 Amendment Ordinance, 1913, and shall be read and con- strued as one with the Magistrates Ordnance, 1890, (here- inafter called the Principal Ordinance), and this Ordinance and the said Ordinance may be cited together as the Magistrates Ordinances, 1890-1913.
2. Section 77 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed and the following section is substituted therefor:-
"77.-(1.) If the Magistrate commits the accused to prison for trial between the 10th and 18th days both inclusive of any month he shall (unless it has been ordered that there shall be no sessions in the mouth immediately succeeding the month in which he has committed the accused to pri- son for trial) 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 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 10th and 18th days both inclusive of any month or if it has been ordered that there shall be no sessions in the month im- mediately succeeding the month in which he.. has committed the accused to prison for trial he shall inform or cause the accused to be in-.› formed 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 motion 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 23rd day of October, 1913.
R. H. CROFTON,
Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excelleney, the Officer Administer- ing the Government, the 24th day of October, 1913.
A. M. THOMSON,
Colonial Secretary. ·