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THE HONGKONG
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No. 51.
VOL. LXI.
VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 9TH NOVEMBER, 1895.
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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 456.
The following Circular Despatch, with its enclosure, is published.
By Command,
J. H. STEWART Lockhart,
Colonial Secretary,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 7th November, 1895.
CIRCULAR.
58 & 59 Vic. Chap. 44.
DOWNING STREET,
11th September, 1895.
SIR,I have the honour to transmit to you a copy of an Act passed in the late Parliament intituled "An Act to amend the Law relating to the Judicial Committee of Her Majesty's Privy Council."
This Act by providing for the inclusion in the Tribunal of Ultimate Appeal from the decisions of Colonial Courts of Judges or former Judges of those Courts, meets a wish which has been frequently expressed, and is I believe generally entertained in the Colonies, and I trust that its enactment will tend to preserve and strengthen the bond of union between all parts of the Empire.
The Officer Administering the Government of
I have the honour to be,
HONGKONG.
Sir,
Your most obedient, humble Servant,
J. CHAMBERLAIN.
CHAPTER 44.
An Act to amend the Law relating to the Judicial Committee of Her
Majesty's Privy Council.
[6th July 1895.]
BE
E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:-
A.D. 1895.
1.-(1.) If any person being or having been Chief Justice or a Judge of the Provision as to Supreme Court of the Dominion of Canada, or of a Superior Court in any province of persons being or
having been Canada, of any of the Australasian colonies mentioned in the schedule to this Act, or Colonial Chief of either of the South African colonies mentioned in the said schedule, or of any other Justices or Judges. Superior Court in Her Majesty's Dominions named in that behalf by Her Majesty in Council, is a member of Her Majesty's Privy Council, he shall be a member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.