HONG KONG LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
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4. The old sub-section 10 (3) was added in 1929 to enable the Governor to appoint temporary judges in addition to the judges In the permanent service of the Colony and contemplated such appoint- ments "to relieve from or in his judicial duties a judge who may be engaged at the time in other public work, or to appoint an additional judge for the purpose of dealing with a pressure of judicial work,' (see Objects and Reasons in 1929 Hong Kong Hansard p. 14) and gave power to the Governor to appoint a temporary judge in any case not covered by the previous sub-sections. In redrafting the sub- section it has been considered desirable to provide for more than one temporary additional judge, to make express reference to the temporary members of the Full Court, and to omit, as in case of sub- section (1), the words "in the permanent service of the Colony",
5. Sub-section 10 (4) is new. It appears from the Objects and Reasons of the 1929 Ordinance (1929 Hansard p. 14) that the inten- tion of the saving in section 9 (2) was to provide that temporary judges need not be appointed in the formal manner in which permanent judges are appointed. The new sub-section (4) added to sub-section 10 clarifies the method of appointment of temporary judges.
6. Section 11 of the principal Ordinance which avoids the office of a judge of the Supreme Court taking or performing any other place of profit or emolument not authorised by law has been redrafted and made inapplicable to judges temporarily appointed under section 10. The section in the principal Ordinance evidently contemplated the situation of a permanent judge accepting or performing the duties of another office and not the situation of the holder of another position being required temporarily to assist as a judge in the Supreme Court.
CODE OF CIVIL PROCEDURE AMENDMENT (NO. 2) ORDINANCE, 1933.
THE ATTORNEY GENERAL moved the first reading of a Bill intituled "An Ordinance for the further amendment of the Code of Civil Procedure." He said: This Bill introduces into our Code a provision taken, with a slight addition, from the Bankruptcy and Deeds of Arrangement Act, 1913; which was not repealed by the Bankruptcy Act, 1914, on which our Bankruptcy Ordinance, 1931, was based. This provision helps to perfect the title of innocent purchasers of goods taken in execution and sold by the bailiff.
THE COLONIAL SECRETARY seconded and the Bill was read a first time,
Objects and Reasons.
The "Objects and Reasons" for the Bill were stated as follows:- This Ordinance adds a new section to the Code of Civil Pro- cedure on the lines of section 15 of the Bankruptcy and Deeds of Arrangement Act, 1913 (3 and 4 Geo. 5, c. 34) with the following modifications:-
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