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on an Ordinance entitled An Ordinance to
amend the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, 1899.
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Under the provisions of Section 5 of the Criminal Proce-
dure Ordinance, 1899 it was laid down that Criminal Sessions should
take place monthly commencing on the 18th day of each month. The
re-constitution of the Full Court established under the provisions
of the Full Court Ordinance 1912 contemplated the visit to Hongkong of a Judge from His Brittanic Majesty's Supreme Court for China
twice a year and it was then thought that it would be convenient
and a matter of regular routine that these visits should take place
in the months of January and July. In this belief Section 5 of
the Criminal Procedure Ordinance 1899 was amended by Section 2 of
the Criminal Sessions Ordinance 1912 excepting the months of January
and July from the necessity for holding in them Criminal Sessions.
Experience has however early shewn that it is not possible to decide
with certainty in any given year what may be the most convenient
the month in which it is practica) for the sittings of the Full Court
to skouië be held and consequently His Honor the Chief Justice recom-
mended that there should be still another amendment of the law as
it existed so as to give a greater elasticity to the arrangements
under which the months in which Criminal Sessions should be held
could be arranged. The present Ordinance carries out this proposal.
and by it it is provided that although the Criminal Sessions shall
take place monthly, the Chief Justice may order that no Sessions
shall be held in such month or months as he shall specify with due
notice.
By these means although of course Sessions will normally
be held every month as before, it will be possible for the sittings
of the Full Court to be fixed during such months as may be found
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to be most practicable and convenient so as to fall in with the
movements of the Judge from His Brittanic Majesty's Court for China.
Section 1 of the Ordinance is formal.
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Section 2 of the Ordinance repeals Section 5 Sub-section
(1) of the Principal Ordinance and reenacts it so as to give effect