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ORDINANCES Nos. 3 AND 4 OF 1861.
Chancery Procedure.
Salvage Prize.
unless the Court shall certify that the refusal to admit was reasonable;.
and no costs of proving any document shall be allowed unless such
Rules and orders how and by whom to be made.
Practice until rules and orders made.
notice be given, except in cases where the omission to give the notice is, in the opinion of the Taxing Master, a saving of expense.
6. The Chief Justice of the said Colony may, from time to time, make general rules and orders for carrying the purposes of this Ordinance into effect, and for regulating the times and form and mode of procedure, and generally the practice of the said Court in respect of the matters to which this Ordinance relates, and for regulating the fees and allowances to all officers of the said Court and practitioners therein in respect to such matters, and so far as may be found expedient for altering the course of proceeding hereinbefore prescribed in respect to the matters to which this Ordinance relates, or any of them, and such rules and orders may from time to time be rescinded or altered by the like authority, and all such rules and orders shall take effect as general orders of the said Court.
7. Until general rules and orders shall be made in pursuance of the powers contained in this Ordinance, the times and forms and mode of procedure, and generally the practice of the said Court in its Equity Jurisdiction in respect of the matters to which this Ordinance relates, and the fees and allowances in respect to such matters, shall be regulated and determined by and according to the practice now in force in the said Supreme Court in its Common Law Jurisdiction or in its Equity Jurisdiction, as the case may be, or as near thereto as the circumstances of the case will admit, and in case of question in any particular suit or cause, then by the decision of the said Supreme Court.
Title.
Ordinance No. 5 of 1857 repealed.
No. 4 of 1861.
An Ordinance to repeal Ordinance No. 5 of 1857.
[29th June, 1861.]
Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the
advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. The Ordinance No. 5 of 1857, intituled "An Ordinance for Salvage and Prize
in certain cases" is hereby repealed.
[Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1887.]