4, 1958.]
The Hongkong Government Gazette.
HONGKONG.
ANNO VIGESIMO PRIMO VICTORIE REGINÆ.
No. of 1858.
His Excellency SIR JOHN BOWRING, Knight, LL.D., Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Hongkong and its Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipotentiary Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Hongkong.
An Ordinance for extending to this Colony certain Imperial Enactments, and certain
Rules and Orders of the Superior Courts.
[ February, 1858.]
it ordained and enacted by The Governor of Hongkong, with the consent of the Legislative thereof, as follows:-
The Acts and Parts of Acts of Parliament, and the Rules, Orders, and Regulations, of the Superior Schedules of Acts, Westminster, respectively specified in the Schedules hereunto annexed, are hereby extended to Rules, and Orders, ex- my, subject to the Provisions next hereinafter contained.
tended.
The said extended Enactments shall be so construed, as to enable the Provisions thereof to be Courts and Officers and enforced by any Courts and Officers respectively (howsoever designated), having or exercising here may execute the or similar or analogous functions to those belonging to, or exerciseable by, the Courts and Officers extended Enactments. *vely (howsoever designated) to which the said Enactments relate.
1. For the purposes of this Ordinance, the Supreme Court shall be deemed to be the "Court of Courts of Probate
and The Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes ;" and also (in its Summary Jurisdiction) a and Divorce, &c. Court."
The Sections of the Act of the Twenty-first Year of the said Queen, Chapter Seventy-seven, Construction of 21 red from Fifty-four to Sixty both inclusive, shall be read and construed as though the Value of Viet. c. 77. Thousand Dollars were substituted therein for the respective Values of £200 and £300, therein
sed.
1. Persons employed in the Police Force of this Colony, and dying here whilst so employed, shall Special provision for
deemed to be within the meaning of the two last Sections; but the Superintendent of Police for the Policemen. ing is hereby constituted the Official Administrator of their Estates, and required to get in and ter the same with the sanction of the Colonial Treasurer, and within One Month after the decease such Person to certify the same, and the amount in value of the Estate and Effects of such Persons, ertificate under his hand to the Registrar of the Supreme Court, for registry in the said Court of
Rules and Orders,
land Courts. lished by the Supreme The like when pub-
VI. All Rules of Court, Orders of Court, and Tables of Fees, made or published, or to be made or and Tables of Fees, Fed by the proper Courts in England, and in force there under the Enactments hereby extended, or published by the Eng them, may be recognised and adopted as applicable to this Colony by the said Supreme Court. VII. If the said Court shall make or publish any Rules of Court, Orders of Court, or Tables of Fees,
the said Enactments, other than such as are mentioned in Section Six of this Ordinance, the same Court. be laid before and approved by the Legislative Council in the usual manner, before being carried VIL Sections Sixteen to Twenty, both inclusive, of the Ordinance No. 6 of 1845, are hereby No. 6 of 1845, §§
feet.
aid.
Repeal of Ordinance
16 to 20
1:00
THE FIRST Schedule to WHICH THIS ORDINANCE REFERS.
IMPERIAL ENACTMENTS.
Principal Officers of the Ordnance.
Date of the Act.
Title or Subject matter of the Act.
19 Vict. c. 117.
30 Vict. c. 47.
The Joint Companies' Act, 1856.
31 Vict. c. 14.
*1 Vict. a 54.
21 Vict. c. 57.
21 Vict. c. 77.
41 Vict. c. 85..
Divorce and Matrimonial Causes.
The Joint Stock Companies' Act, 1857. Punishment of frauds committed by Persons intrusted with property.
Reversionary interests of married Women in personal Estate.
Probates and Letters of Administration.
Extent of operation intended to be hereby given to the Act. The whole of the Act
Sections Fourteen, Twenty-eight to Thirty-one, both inclusive; Forty-one to Forty-seven, both inclusive; Fifty-three to Fifty-seven, both inclusive; the whole of Part Three, and Section One Hundred and Fifteen.
Sections One, Two, Three, Eleven to Twenty-one, both inclusive; Twenty-three, Twenty-four, and Twenty-eight.
The whole of the Act.
The whole of the Act.
Sections Two, Three, Four, Twenty-one to Thirty-eight, both inclusive; Forty, Forty-five, Fifty-four to Ninety-one, both inclusive; Ninety-four, Ninety-five, and Ninety-six.
Sections Two, Seven, Thirteen to Twenty-six, both inclusive, Thirty-three to Fifty-four, both inclusive; and Fifty-nine, (except so far as the said Sections, or any of them, relate to the dissolution of marriage.)
THE SECOND Schedule tO WHICH THIS ORDINANCE REFERS.
RULES, ORDERS, AND REGULATIONS, OF THE SUPERIOR COURTS OF LAW AND EQUITY AT WESTMINSTER.
Potefte Rule or Order.
Court, Michaelmas f
<f Court of 30th
... 1835.
Court of the 8th 1
• Orders of the 12th
r. 1836.
Subject matter of the Ruls or Order.
Writs issued under the Bill of Exchange' Procedure Act, 1855.
Decrees and Entries.
Service of Pleadings and Proceedings at Law.
}
Business to be disposed of at Chambers.
Leases and Sales of settled Estates.
of the 15th 1356. Order of the 2df Service of Writs and Proceedings in
| Equity.
13. 1657.
* Court of the 23d
7.
Orders of the 18th
dess of the 8th
Nolice as to Costs endorsed on Writs of Į Summons on Contracts under £20.
Allachment and Sequestration.
Conduct of business at Chambers.
Extent of operation intended to be hereby given to the Rule or Order..
The whole of the Rule.
The whole of the Orders I., II, and III,
The whole of the Rule.
The whole of the Orders.
The whole of the Orders.
The whole of the Order.
The whole of the Rule.
The whole of Order I.
The whole of the Regulations, except so far as they require Proceedings to be printed.