Enclosure No. 2.
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
Hongkong 17th December, 1927.
REPORT ON ORDINANCE No....23.
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1.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled an Ordinance to amend the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, and I am of opinion
that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Gover-
-nor's instructions.
2.
This Ordinance makes a number of minor amendments in
the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, Ordinance No.3 of 1890.
That Ordinance has also been amended by Ordinance No.2 of 1926
Section 2 amends section 8 of the principal Ordinance
3.
by making the Decuty Harbour Master a marine magistrate.
When that section was amended in 1926 the office had not been
created.
4. The proviso to section 10 (2) of the principal Ordinance, 1890, provided that nothing therein contained, i.e., presu-
-mably, nothing contained in section 10, should oblige a
magistrate to issue a summons in any case where the defendant
appeared voluntarily or upon his recognizance or was in the