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ORDINANCES Nos. 6 AND 7 OF 1856.
Criminal Procedure.
Chancery Procedure.
Limitation of the rule excluding confessions under inducement.
Extension of the 13 & 14 Vict. c. 21. to this Colony and to Ordinances of the Legislative Council.
9. No promise or threat shall operate to exclude a defendant's confession from being received in evidence against such defendant upon his trial for felony or misdemeanor, unless such promise or threat shall have been made or held out to such defendant by one having some authority over him in connection with or in relation to the prosecution of such offence.
10. The Act of Parliament passed in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of Her Majesty, chapter twenty-one, for shortening the language used in Acts of Parliament, is hereby for all purposes extended to this Colony; and the rules of construction by the said Act provided shall extend and apply to all Acts of Parliament, and Ordinances of the Legislative Council of this Colony, now in force or hereafter to come in force within the same.
[Repealed by Ordinance No. 3 of 1865.]
No. 7 of 1856.
Title.
Preamble.
Acts of Parliament and Orders in Chancery extended to Hongkong.
To be construed with Ordinance No. 5 of 1856.
An Ordinance to extend to this Colony certain Enactments and General Orders for reforming Procedure in the High Court of Chancery and the Offices thereof.
WHEREAS it is desirable that sundry important reforms in the administration of equity proceedings be adopted in this Colony: Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained, the several enactments of the Imperial Parliament specified in schedule A to this Ordinance annexed, and also the several orders of the High Court of Chancery of Great Britain specified in schedule B to this Ordinance also annexed, shall (to the extent in the said two schedules respectively defined, but not otherwise) extend to and come into force and effect within this Colony from the time of the passing of this present Ordinance. [So much as relates to 10 and 11 Vict. c. 96 and to the General Orders of the High Court of Chancery of the 10th June, 1848, repealed by Ordinance No. 7 of 1873.]
2. This Ordinance and Ordinance No. 5 of 1856, entitled "An Ordinance for the Amendment of Procedure in Civil and Criminal Cases,” shall be so read and construed together as shall best conduce to the particular effect of each ordinance and of the provisions thereby respectively extended to this Colony.