INTERPRETATION.
No. 31 of 1911.
1965
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assize.
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(2) "Court of assize" or "assizes" means, as respects [s. 39 contd.] England, Wales, and Ireland, a court of assize, a court of oyer and terminer, and a court of gaol delivery, or any of them, and as respects England and Wales, includes the Central Criminal Court; and as respects Hongkong, means the Supreme Court, either one judge or the Full Court, sitting in its criminal jurisdiction; and unless it is specially provided that any offence is to be tried summarily before a magistrate or otherwise, all offences shall be triable before the Supreme Court sitting in its criminal jurisdiction.
(63) "Supreme Court" means the Supreme Court of Hongkong.
L'ourt.
(4) "Probate court" means, as respects Hongkong, the Supreme Court sitting in its probate jurisdiction.
(5) "Bankruptcy court" means, as respects Hongkong, the Supreme Court sitting in its bankruptcy jurisdiction.
Court of
(6) "Colonial Court of Admiralty" means, as respects Hongkong, the Supreme Court sitting in its Admiralty jurisdiction.
(7) "Court" means the Supreme Court as well as any other court holden in the Colony; but in the absence of any words indicating a contrary intention the jurisdiction created by or referred to in any enactment shall be exercised only by the Supreme Court.
(8) "Magistrate" means a magistrate appointed under the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, but does not include the marine magistrate in cases not coming within section 8 of the said Ordinance, unless such magistrate is expressly indicated: and unless the contrary intention appears, the expression "triable before a magistrate" or "tried summarily", or any other expression having the like intent, means that an offence may be tried as provided by the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890; and the expression "summary conviction" or "conviction before a magistrate", and any other expression having the like intent, means that the offence to which it relates was triable, and has been tried, and the offender convicted, as provided by the said Ordinance; and in both cases the procedure respecting the imposition of fines and forfeitures, imprisonment for default, and all other provisions respecting the jurisdiction of the magistrate, and the procedure of such trial, shall be held to be included; and where by any Ordinance...