DIEU E
DROIT
HONGKONG ,
ANNO DECIMO
VICTORIÆ REGINÆ.
No. 6 of 1846.
Y His Excellency Sir JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS, Baronet, Governor
and Commander-in -Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its
Dependencies, and Vice-Admiral of the same, Her Majesty's Plenipo-
tentiary and Chief Superintendent of the Trade of British Subjects
in China, with the Advice of the Legislative Council of Hongkong.
An Ordinance for the regulation of Criminal Proceedings in the Title.
Supreme Court of Hongkong, during the Absence of Her Majesty's
Attorney-General.
[ 8th October, 1846. ]
WHEREAS it is necessary and expedient to make Provision Preamble.
for the due and proper institution and carrying on of Criminal
Proceedings in the Supreme Court of Hongkong, during the Absence
of Her Majesty's Attorney-General :
Be it therefore enacted and ordained, That from and after the Power to the Go-
passing of this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for His Excellency the vernor to appoint a
person to carry on
Governor of Hongkong, at any Time in and during the Absence of Criminal Proceedings
Her Majesty's Attorney-General, to nominate and appoint a fit and the Attorney- General,
proper Person to appear and prosecute in the Supreme Court of &c.
Hongkong, either as Attorney- General or in his own Name for and
on the behalf of Her said Majesty ; and any Indictment or Informa-
tion signed by the Party so nominated and appointed shall be of
the same Force and Validity as if the same had been signed by Her
Majesty's Attorney-General pursuant to an Ordinance made and
passed in the Ninth Year of Her Majesty's Reign, intituled, An No. 8 of 1845, Sec-
tion I.
Ordinance to regulate Criminal Proceedings.
JOHN FRANCIS DAVIS
Governor, &c. &c.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong,
this 8th Day of October, 1846.
ADOLPHUS E. SHELLEY,
Clerk of Councils.
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