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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST MARCH, 1896.
Title.
Rutil.
Documents huretofore *ealed with the seal of the Colonial Court of Admiralty to be as valid As if sealed with the seal of the Supreme
Court.
Suspending clause,
Titio.
Recital.
The Court
By order the Tacatlag of registration of Lis pendens, NC.
309 31 Virt cap. 47 2.2.
No. 1 or 1896.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to prevent doubts as to the validity of documents heretofore sealed with the Seal of the Colonial Court of Admiralty of Hongkong.
LS
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WILLIAM ROBINSON,
Governor.
[17th March, 1896.] HEREAS a seal, bearing the inscription "Colonial Court of Admiralty of Hongkong," has been used in the Registry of the Supreme Court for proceedings in the Admiralty Jurisdiction of the said Court. And whereas doubts have been expressed whether the use of the said seal was duly authorized.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. Every writ, warrant, release, commission, attachment, or other instrument which has hitherto been issued from the Registry of the Supreme Court sealed with the above mentioned soal, shall, to all intents and for all purposes, be taken to have, and to have had, the same force and effect as if it bad been issued, sealed with the seal of the Supreme Court, as authorized by section 6 of Ordinance 12 of 1873.
2. This Ordinance shall not come into operation muless and until the Governor notifics by Proclamation that it is Her Majesty's pleasure not to disallow the same and, there- after, it shall come into operation upon such day as the Governor shall notify by the same or any other Procla-
mation.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 10th day of March, 1896.
F. J. BADELEY, Acting Clerk of Councils,
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 17th day of March, 1896.
J. II. STEWART LOCKHART,
Colonial Secretary.
No. 2 OF 1896.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend the practice as to the vacating of the registration of a Lis pendens.
LS
WILLIAM ROBINSON,
Governor.
[17th March, 1896.] HEREAS a registered Lis peudens cannot be vacated
WHEREAS a or is peperens the mt be it was
registered, and such consent is sometimes withheld although the suit or proceeding is at an end or is not being bonâ fide proscented: Be it cuacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. The Supreme Court or any Judge thereof, before whom the property sought to be bound is in litigation. may upon the determination of the Lis pendens, or during the pendency thereof, where the said Court or Judge shall be satisfied that the litigation is not prosecuted bonâ fide, or for other good cause shown, make an order, if such Court or Judge shall see fit, for the vacating of the registration in the Land Office of such Lis pendens without the consent of the party who registered it, and may, in the discretion of the said Court or Judge, direct the party on whose behalf the registration was made to pay all the costs and expenses occasioned by the registration or the vacating thereof, including the costs of the application to vacate, or muy make such other order as to such costs or any of them as to such Court or Judge may seem just.