THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 20тH JUNE, 1890.
AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
The 15th day of June 1853.
PRESENT:
THE QUEEN'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS PRINCE ALBERT.
LORD PRESIDENT.
LORD STEWARD.
DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.
DUKE OF WELLINGTON.
LORD CHAMBERLAIN.
EARL OF ABERDEEN.
EARL OF CLARENDON.
VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.
MR. HERBERT.
SIR JAMES GRAHAM, BArt.
493
WHEREAS there was this day read at the Board a Report from the Right Honourable the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. dated the 30th May last past, humbly setting forth that the Lords of the Judicial Committee have taken into consideration the practice of the Committee with a view to greater economy, despatch, and efficiency in the appellate jurisdiction of Her Majesty in Council, and that their Lordships have agreed humbly to report to Her Majesty that it is expedient. that certain changes should be made in the existing practice in Appeals, and recommending that certain Rules and Regulations therein set forth should henceforth be observed, obeyed, and carried iuto execution, provided Her Majesty is pleased to approve the same:
PER MAJESTY, having taken the said Report into consideration, was pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to approve thereof, and of the Rules and Regulations set forth therein, in the words following, videlicet:---
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when suc-
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I. That, any former usage or practice of Her Majesty's Privy Council notwithstanding, an Appellant who shall succeed in obtaining a reversal or material alteration of any judgment, recover costs decrce, or order appealed from, shall be entitled to recover the costs of the Appeal from the of appeal.
Respondent, except in cases in which the Lords of the Judicial Committee inay think fit otherwise to direct.
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II. That the Registrar or other proper officer having the custody of records in any to be sent to Court or special jurisdiction from which an Appeal is brought to Her Majesty in Council be
directed to send by post, with all possible despatch,
Registrar
of Privy
Council.
Transcripts may be printed abroad.
One certified copy of the transcript record in cach cause to the Registrar of Her Majesty's Privy Council, Whitehal! :
And that all such transcripts be registered in the Privy Council Office, with the date of their arrival, the names of the parties, and the date of the sentence appealed from ;
And that such transcript be accompanied by a correct and complete index of all the papers, documents, and exhibits in the cause;
And that the Registrar of the Court appealed from, or other proper officer of such Court, be directed to omit from such transcript all merely formal documents, provided such omission be stated and certified in the said index of papers:
And that especial care be taken not to allow any document to be set forth more than once in such transcript;
And that no other certified copies of the record be transmitted to agents in England by or on behalf of the parties in the suit;
And that the fees and expenses incurred and paid for the preparation of such transcript be stated and certified upon it by the Registrar or other officer preparing the same.
III. That when the record of proceedings or evidence in the cause appealed has been printed or partly printed abroad, the Registrar or other proper officer of the Court from which the Appeal is brought
Shall be bound to send home the same in a printed form, either wholly or so far as the same may have been printed,
And that he do certify the same to be correct, on two copies, by signing his name on every printed sheet.
And by affixing the seal, if any, of the Court appealed from to these copies, with the sanction of the Court.