ORDINANCES Nos . 4 AND 5 of 1858. 407
Appeals from Justices. Imperial Acts and Rules - Extension .
11. The Supreme Court shall have power ( with consent of the General rules
and orders of
Legislative Council ) to make and alter from time to time any general the Supreme
Court.
rules and orders of Court , for the better regulation of the practice and
proceedings under this Ordinance, and subject thereto and to this Ordi
nance the said practice and proceedings shall be regulated , so far as prac
ticable, by analogy to the practice and proceedings for the time being
observed in the Superior Courts of Law at Westminster, with respect to
appeals under the Act of Parliament of the twenty- first year of the Queen, 21 Viet . c. 43 .
chapter forty-three .
12. Henceforward the Summary Jurisdiction of Petty Sessions in cri Summary
convictions
minal cases shall not be ousted merely because the offence charged or for burgla
ries, &c.
proved shall amount to a burglary, housebreaking, breaking or entering (See Ord. No.
6 of 1862.)
a curtilage, stealing in a dwelling-house, shop, or curtilage , or stealing
from the person : Yet so as that it shall be the duty of the said Court and
of all Justices (where the offence is of an aggravated nature ) to commit
such offenders to the Supreme Court for trial.
NOTE.-This Ordinance is repealed by Ordinance No. 10 of 1890 as from 1st January,
1891, subject to Her Majesty's right of disallowance.
No. 5 of 1858.
An Ordinance for extending to this Colony certain Imperial Enactments ,
and certain Rules and Orders of the Superior Courts .
[ 22nd March , 1858. ]
E it enacted and ordained by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the
ordained
BB Legislative Council thereof, the
byas Govern
follows :
1. The Acts and parts of Acts of Parliament, and the rules, orders, and regulations , Schedules of
Acts, rules, and
of the Superior Courts of Westminster, respectively specified in the schedules hereunto orders, extended.
annexed, are hereby extended to this Colony, subject to the provisions next hereinafter
contained.