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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 320.—The following Bill was read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 6th October, 1914 :-
A BILL
ENTITLED
Short title.
Amendment of section 4 of Ordinance No. 6 of 1887.
An Ordinance to amend the Jury Ordinance,
1887.
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 Jury Amend- ment Ordinance, 1914, and shall be read and construed as one with the Jury Ordinance, 1887, (hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance), and this Ordinance and the said Ordinance may be cited together as the Jury Ordinances, 1887-1914.
2. Section 4 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended as follows:--
(.) by the repeal of sub-clause (5) and by the
substitution therefor of the following
"persons entitled to practise medicine and
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surgery under the Medical Registra-
"tion Ordinance, 1884, and persons "entitled to practise dentistry under "the Dentists Ordinance, 1914;";
(6.) by the addition of the following clause at the
end thereof :—
"(12) all officers and non-commissioned "officers of the Volunteer Force, and "such other efficient members of the "Volunteer Force as may be allowed
by the Governor-in-Council."
Objects and Reasons.
The main object of this Ordinance is to exempt from Jury service all officers and nou-commissioned officers of the Volunteer Force, and other efficient members to such a number as may be allowed by the Governor-in-Council.
The opportunity has been taken to bring section 4 (5) of the Jury Ordinance, 1887, into line with recent legisla- tion relating to the registration of dentists.
J. H. KEMP,
Attorney General,