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Am Ordinance (No.33 of 1912) to amend the Law relating to

Criminal Sessions.

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1. Under the previsions of the recently passed Full Court

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Ordinance 1912, has been arranged that one of His Majestys

Judges of the Supreme Court of China & Cerea will visit

Hong Kong periodically for the purpose of ferming a Full Court as constituted under the provisions of the above

mentioned Ordinance. The months of January and July have

been ascertained to be the months in which these visits

will take place and it was therefore necessary that those months should be freed from the obligation of being partly utilised in the holding of Criminal Sessions which under

the existing law are held every month. Section 2 of the

Ordinance carries the above into effect.

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2. The arrangements as to the above for which Magistrates

must commit prisoners fer trial fellowed,under the Magiɛ- trates Amendment Ordinance 1910, the prescribed system of monthly Criminal Sessions and it was therefore necessary to make a formal amendment in the Magistrates Amendment Ordi- nance 1910 which would effect the necessary changed in the

s-to date which it was compulsory for the Magistrate te commit

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the accused person for trial. Section 3 of the Ordinance carries this alteration inte effect.

3. In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency

the Governer may properly assent in the name of His Magis-

ty and ** His Behalf.

Johna Bue

Quehmill

Attorney General.

4/11/12.

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