THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 24, 1914.
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COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. 151.-The following Order and Rules, which were laid before the Legislative Council on the 23rd day of April, 1914, are published for general information.
24th April, 1914.
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.
Order as to the Fees and Percentages to be taken in the Supreme Court of Hongkong, made the 28th day of January, 1914.
I, the undersigned, Chief Justice of the Colony of Hongkong, by virtue of the power and authority in me vested, do hereby order and direct as follows:
This Order may be cited as The Supreme Court Fees Amending Order, 1914, and shall be read and construed as one with the Supreme Court Fees Order, 1903, published in the Gazette on the 24th day of April, 1903, and on pages 73 to 82 of the Regulations of Hong- kong, 1910, and this Order and the said Order may be cited together as the Supreme Court Fees Orders, 1903-1914. This Order shall come into force on the 1st day of May, 1914, and shall apply to all causes and matters commenced on and after the said day, and to all proceedings taken on and after the said day in all causes and matters then pending.
Schedule I of the Supreme Court Fees Order, 1903, is amended by the striking out of the words and figures Attendance of any officer of Court to give evidence in the Supreme Court or to produce any record or document $5.00" appearing under the heading "Taking Evidence, Affidavits, &c.", and the substitution therefor of the following words and figures :--
"Attendance of any Government Official to produce or prove in the Supreme
Court any record or document $5.00.
Attendance of any Government Official to give any other evidence in the Supreme
Court:-
When called as an expert, the fee payable to an expert witness. When not called as an expert :
If his annual salary is £600 ($6,000) or more, $15.00 per hour or portion of an hour of attendance in Court, with a minimum of $20.00.
If his annual salary is £360 ($3,600) or more, $10.00 per hour or portion of an hour of attendance in Court, with a minimum of $15.00.
If his annual salary is under £360 ($3,600), $5.00 per hour or portion of an hour of attendance in Court, with a minimum of $10.00.
Note: The above fees are to be paid to the Registrar of the Supreme Court in cash.'
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Supreme Court House, Hongkong, the 28th day of January, 1914.
W. REES DAVIES, Chief Justice.
Approved by the Legislative Council, this 23rd day of April, 1914.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
23rd April, 1914.
M. J. BREEN,
Clerk of Councils.