THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 28, 1929.

(3) The number of names which the Registrar shall include in the list of special jurors shall not exceed sixty, or such other maximum as may be ordered for the time being by the Governor in Council.

(4) So soon as possible after the expira- tion of the said period of fourteen days the Registrar shall forward to the Clerk of Councils the two lists and such notices as shall have been served on him under the provisions of sub-section (2).

(5) The said lists and notices shall thereupon be considered by the Governor in Council who may add any name to either list or strike off any name from either list, and who shall accordingly finally settle the two lists.

(6) In settling the list of special jurors the Governor in Council shall not be bound by any previous order made by him regard- ing the inaximum number of special jurors.

4. Section 8 of the Jury Ordinance, 1887, is Repeal of repealed and the following section is substituted Ordinance

No. 6 of therefor :-

1887, s. 8, and substitu-

Bringing lists into operation.

8.-(1) The two lists, when finally tion of new settled by the Governor in Council, shall section. be returned to the Registrar and shall be brought into use on the 1st day of March next following, or on such day as may be ordered by the Governor.

(2) The two lists so settled and brought into use in any year shall continue in force until the respective lists settled in the next following year are duly brought into use.

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No. 6 of

5. Section 10 (1) of the Jury Ordinance, 1887, Amendment is amended by the substitution of the words "the of Ordinance Registrar or a Deputy Registrar shall'

for the words 1887, "a Deputy Registrar shall, in the presence of the s. 10 (1). Registrar in the second and third lines, and by the substitution of the words "the Registrar or a Deputy Registrar" for the words a Deputy Registrar" in

the sixth line.

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6. Section 24 of the Jury Ordinance, 1887, is Amendment amended by the substitution of the word or for the of Ordinance

No. 6 of word "and" in the fifth line.

1887, s. 24.

7. The lists of special jurors and common jurors Temporary brought into use on the 1st day of March, 1929," shall provision." continue in force until the new lists which shall be settled in the year 1930 under the provisions of the Jury Ordinance, 1887, as amended by this Ordinance, Ordinance shall have been brought into use.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 27th day of June, 1929.

No. 6 of 1887.

E. I. WYNNE-Jones,

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

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