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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 1, 1906.
HONGKONG.
No. 3 or 1906.
An Ordinance relating to the jurisdiction of the Supreme Court with respect to the care and commitment of the custody of the persons and estates of Lunatics.
M. NATHAN,
LS
Governor.
[1st June, 1906.]
Short tile.
Interpret-
ation.
Jurisdiction
of Supreme Court,
Forms.
Repeal,
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 Lunacy Ordinance,
1906.
2. For the purposes of this Ordinance :-
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· Lumatic means an idiot or person of unsound mind : The words "the Treasury " in section 148 of the enactment of the Imperial Parliament entitled the Lunacy Act, 1890, shall be interpreted to include the Governor in Conneil :
The words “ Great Seal" in the said Lunacy Act, 1890, shall be interpreted to include the seal of the Supreme Court, and the provisions of the said Act with respect to the Lord Chancellor or the Court of Chancery or any Judge in England shall he interpreted to include the said Supreme Court in its equity jurisdiction and the Judges thereof; and every officer (however designated) of the said Supreme Court or judge thereof having or exerci- sing functions of the like kind or analogous to the functions of any officer (however designated) of the said Lord Chancellor, Court of Chancery, or Judge in England shall be deemed to be within the meaning of any of the provisions of the said Lunacy Act, 1890, respecting such last mentioned officers. 3. The Supreme Court in relation to the persons and estates of lunatics shall have, in addition to the powers conferred upon such Court by the Supreme Court Ordin- ance, 1873, such jurisdiction as may be exercised in England by the Lord Chancellor or other Judge or Judges of the High Court of Judicature under the provisions of the said. Lunacy Act, 1890, or any Act amending the same.
4. The forms contained in the schedule to the said Lunacy Act, 1890, may be used in the cases to which they respectively have reference with such variations and ad- ditions as circumstances may require.
5. The Imperial Enactments Extension Ordinance, 1856, is hereby repealed.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 31st day of May, 1906.
A. G. M. FLETCHER,
Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 1st day of June, 1906.
T. SERCOMBE SMITH, Colonial Secretary.