L.S.
HONG KONG.
No. 16 of 1928.
I assent.
W. T. SOUTHORN,
Officer Administering the Government.
28th December, 1928.
An Ordinance to amend the Magistrates Ordi-
nance, 1890.
[28th December, 1928.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Magistrates Short title. Amendment Ordinance, 1928.
Ordinance
2. Section 96 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, Repeal of which was enacted by section 13 of the Magistrates No. 3 of 1890, Amendment Ordinance, 1927, is repealed and the s. 96, and following section is substituted therefor :-
Review of decision by magistrate.
96.—(1) Within seven clear days after the determination in any manner by a magistrate of any matter which he has power to determine in a sum- mary way it shall be lawful for either party thereto to apply to the magistrate to review his decision in the matter.
(2) Any such application may be made by the party himself in person, or may be made by his counsel in open court whether the party himself be present or not.
(3) If either party to the said matter is in the custody of the Superinten- dent of Prisons, the magistrate shall, unless he dismisses the appli- cation forthwith, inform the Super- intendent of Prisons in writing that an application for a review has been made, and thereafter the Superin- tendent of Prisons shall produce the said party whenever so required in writing by a magistrate for the purposes of the review or of the application therefor.
(4) It shall be lawful for the magistrate
to grant the application for a review at any time provided that the appli-
substitution of new
section 96 for
that enacted
by Ordinance No. 23 of 1927, s. 13.
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