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Fondosure 2. 62881
REC
3 NOV 19
371
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
Hongkong..12th..September1919.
REPORT ON ORDINANCE No........
101 9.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled
An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to Indictmente in
Criminal Cases, and matters incidental or similar
nel 1 au
thereto,
of opinion that the Ordinance is which is not contrary to the
Governor's Instructions.
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The object of this Ordinance is to introduce into this
Colony, with the necessary modifications, the provisions of the
English Act of 1915, 5 & 6 Geo. V. c.90, with the object of sim-
plifying indictments and the rules relating to the forms thereof.
3.
It has not been thought necessary to enact here the provi-
sions of section 6 of the Home Act as to the coats of defective
or redundant indictments; nor the provisions of section 7 as we
have not adopted in this Colony the Vexatious Indictments Acta.