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Preamble.
Section 2 of Ordinance 11 of 1864 amended.
Section 5 of Ordinance 11 of 1864 repealed.
Section 6 of Ord. 11 of 1864 amended.
Sec. 8 of Ord, 11 of 1864 repealed.
ORDINANCE No. 24 of 1882.
Jurors and Juries.
No. 24 of 1882.
An Ordinance entitled The Jurors and Juries Ordinance, 1882.
[19th December, 1882.]
WHEREAS on account of the abolition of the office of sheriff it is necessary to amend the laws relating to jurors and juries.
Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. Section 2 of the Jury Law Consolidation Ordinance, 1864, is hereby amended by striking out the words "the sheriff" and inserting in lieu thereof the word "any."
2. Section 5 of the said Ordinance is hereby repealed and in lieu thereof, it is enacted as follows:-
Every person shall, for the purpose of enabling the Registrar to complete the list of jurors hereinafter referred to, on demand by the Registrar or some person duly authorized by him, forward to the said Registrar in writing within the time specified in the said demand, his Christian or other names and surnames at full length together with his profession, business or occupation and place of abode, under penalty for refusing or neglecting so to do of a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.”
3. Section 6 of the said Ordinance is hereby amended by striking out the word "Sheriff" and inserting in lieu thereof the word "Registrar."
4. Section 8 is hereby repealed and in lieu thereof it is enacted as follows:-
The Registrar shall, on or before the first day of February in each year make a list in alphabetical order of all men ascertained by him to be liable to serve as jurors, setting forth the Christian or other names and surnames of each at full length, together with his profession, business, or occupation and place of abode, and shall cause a copy of such list to be posted for the term of one fortnight on or in some conspicuous part of the Court House, to the end that the inhabitants of the Colony may, as the case shall be, apply by notice in writing to the Registrar requiring that their names or the names of some other person may be respectively either added to or struck off from the said list, upon cause duly assigned in such notice; and the Registrar immediately after the expiration of the time for posting such list, shall forward the same and such notices as may be so served on him, to the clerk of the Legislative Council, to the end that the Council (which is hereby empowered so to do), may strike off or add such name or names or any other name or names from among those of the said inhabitants as to the said Council may appear fit, and the said list when so approved of, or altered, shall be returned to the Registrar by the clerk of Council and called the 'Jurors List' and shall be brought into use on the first day of March next following and shall continue in force for one year from the said first day of March.”