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"77.-(1.) If the Magistrate commits the accused to Informing prison for trial between the 10th and 18th days accused of both inclusive of any month he shall (unless it committal. has been ordered that there shall be no sessions in the month 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:-
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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."
Objects and Reasons,
The object of this Bill is to enable the Magistrate to commit an accused person for trial under the altered cir- cumstances which arise owing to the proposals contained in the Criminal Procedure Amendment Ordinance, 1913, as to the fixing by the Chief Justice of the months in which no Criminal Sessions will take place owing to the sittings of the recently constituted Full Court of Appeal. It has been found that it is not possible to fix definitely the months in which these sittings of this Full Court shall take place and consequently it has been necessary to give more elasticity to the arrangement than exists under the present law. These altered arrangements necessitate cor- responding alterations in the Magistrates Ordinance which are effected by this Bill.
JOHN A. BUCKNILL, Attorney General.
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to repeal the Sugar Convention
Ordinance, 1904.
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 Sugar Conven- Short title. tion Ordinance, 1913.
2. The Sugar Convention Ordinance, 1904, is hereby Repeal of repealed.
Objects and Reasons.
His Majesty's Government has withdrawn from the Brussels Sugar Convention, this withdrawal taking place as from the 1st September, 1913. It is therefore necessary to repeal our local Sugar Convention Ordinance, 1904, as the effect of the withdrawal of the Imperial Government from the Convention is to relieve the Imperial Government and the various Colonial administrations which adhered to the Convention from the obligations which they have undertaken under the terms of the Convention.
JOHN A. Bucknill,
Attorney General,
the Sugar Convention Ordinance,
1904.