The Graft Ordinance consists
copy of the printed
therefore in a copy
Vice Admiralty Rules and forms at
present
et in force under the Act/sec 16 (3)) with alterations and missions as
to the aspects
above
specified, but other.
wise unaltered except so far as is ne
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cewary from the transfer of the jurisdiction to the Supreme Court.
His Excelency,
I have to...
Sr. F. Clarke,
Chief Justice.
Sir W. Robinson, B. C. M. G
HongKong
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RECP
C.
4566
REG 2 MAR 96)
Sub-enclosure in despatch
No 25 of 294 January.
A BILL
ENTITLED
1896.
No. 1:-[21.1.96.]
An Ordinance to regulate the Admiralty Procedure of the Supreme Court.
BE
E 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 Supreme Court Admiralty Procedure Ordinance, 1896, and shall come into force on the
day of
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1
2. From and after the said
day of 189 , the rules made in pursuance of an Act of Parliament passed on the 26th year of the reign of Her Majesty, touching the practice to be observed in the Vice-Admiralty Courts and established by the Queen's Order in Council of the 23rd day of August, 1883, shall, as regards all actions commenced on and after the said day, cease to have opera- tion as Rules of Court in the Admiralty Jurisdiction of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, and, in lien of the said Rules, the Rules contained in the schedule to this Ordinance shall apply to all actions commenced in the Admiralty Jurisdic- tion of the said Supreme Court on and after the said day of
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Title.
Short title.
Rules and poxi of former rules.
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