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Regulations of 22. 3. 1902 9.5. 27.3.1902) Also Regulations of 12-5.1902 (9.9. 23·5-02) Also Regulations of 22.9.1902. 5.26.9.02 order to be read with Rating Ordinance. 20.8. 92 See Ordinance No. 6 of 1901. 29.6.95 27-3.02 Saving of 23 562 liability to other 26.9.02 penalties.
No. 5.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1888.
lawful for the Governor-in-Council, by order under his hand, to levy a special rate assessed upon such village to an amount sufficient to cover the damage done; and such increased assessment shall take effect from the earliest day after such order on which it can be brought into force, and shall continue until the Governor-in-Council, by a further order under his hand, revokes, or alters the original order, which the Governor-in-Council shall do when he is satisfied that the injuries to trees on account of which the original order was issued have ceased or that they were not committed by the inhabitants of such village.
3. Every such order shall be read as forming part of any Ordinance for the time being in force relating to rating.
4. Nothing in this Ordinance shall operate to prevent any person from being prosecuted for injuring or cutting down trees, or for the stealing or unlawful possession of wood, under any enactment under which, before the commencement of this Ordinance, he might have been so prosecuted.
55 12 (3) (4): 13: 14(1): 15° (3): 17 (4): 27 (4) of III/96
ORDINANCE No. 5 OF 1888. A. D. 1888. AN ORDINANCE to abolish the Office of Coroner and to make provision for the Performance of the Duties thereof by Magistrates.
Ordinance No. 17 of 1888. with Ordinance No. 7 of 1889 incorporated.
[9th June, 1888.]
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Coroner's Abolition Ordinance, 1888.
2. In this Ordinance "Magistrate" means any Magistrate appointed by the Governor to discharge the duties of Coroner or, in his absence or inability to act, any Police Magistrate.
3. From and after the commencement of this Ordinance, the Office of Coroner and all incidental Offices thereto attached shall be abolished.
4. The duties hitherto performed by the Coroner shall be performed by the Magistrates or either of them as the Governor may from time to time direct, and the Magistrates shall have, in relation to such duties, all the powers and privileges which a Coroner had by law at the commencement of this Ordinance.
5.-(1.) The Governor may from time to time, by order under his hand, set apart suitable places for the reception of dead bodies for the purposes of post-mortem examinations.
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