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CAP. 336]
District Court
[1984 Ed.
Amendment of
limits of jurisdiction.
(b) determining the smallest amount of money on deposit on which interest is to be credited to an account to which money placed on deposit belongs;
(c) determining the time at which money placed on deposit is to begin and to cease to bear interest and the mode of computing such interest;
(d) determining the cases in which interest on money placed on deposit and the dividends on any securities standing in the name of the Registrar is or are to be placed on deposit.
(Added, 103 of 1970, s. 10)
73A. The amounts mentioned in sections 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 41, 52 and 69 may be amended by resolution of the Legislative Council.
PART V
(Added, 79 of 1981, s. 2)
Criminal jurisdiction.
(Cap. 25.)
Procedure upon transfer of charge or complaint. (Cap. 227.)
(Cap. 227.)
CRIMINAL JURISDICTION
74. The Court shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine in accordance with the provisions of this Ordinance all such charges as the Attorney General may lawfully prefer under the provisions of section 75 and any such offences as it may deal with pursuant to section 41 of the Labour Tribunal Ordinance.
(1 of 1953, s. 24, incorporated. Amended, 21 of 1962, s. 13 and 16 of 1972, s. 48)
75. (1) Where a charge or complaint has been transferred to the Court by a magistrate in accordance with the provisions of Part IV of the Magistrates Ordinance, the Court shall have jurisdiction and powers over all proceedings in relation to the offence therein alleged similar to the jurisdiction and powers the High Court would have had if the accused person had been committed to that court for trial on indictment, save that nothing in this section shall be deemed to give jurisdiction to hear and determine such charge or complaint. (Amended, 21 of 1962, s. 13 and 16 of 1970, Schedule)
(2) Where a charge or complaint has been transferred as aforesaid, the Attorney General shall, unless he enters a nolle prosequi, deliver to the Registrar a charge sheet setting forth the charge or charges preferred in the name of Her Majesty against the accused person, and any such charge may allege the commission of any indictable offence not included in any of the categories specified in Part III of the Second Schedule to the Magistrates Ordinance and any offence triable summarily only, whether or not the offence was included in the order transferring the charge or complaint to the Court. (Amended, 16 of 1970, Schedule and 25 of 1972, s. 3)
(3) Such charge sheet shall be delivered within 14 days after the date of the order of transfer or such longer period as the Court