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Ordinance No. 1 of 1903.
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(b) persons of sound mind who have previously been in- cluded in the Jurors Lists but have been omitted or removed therefrom on account of age or infirmity, or on account of exemption from jury service granted by the Governor in Council or by the Court;
(c) barristers and solicitors in actual practice and the clerks of solicitors in actual practice ;
(d) persons registered under section 4 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884, or under the Dentistry Ordin- ance, 1914, or under the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1916:
(e) editors sub-editors and reporters of daily newspapers published in the Colony;
(f) clergymen of the Church of England, Roman Catholic priests, and ministers of any congregation of Protestant Dis- senters or of Jews, acting as such in the Colony;
(g) professors and other academic officers of the Univer- sity of Hong Kong:
(h) masters of schools which are certified by the Director of Education as not being vernacular schools;
(i) masters of steamers and local pilots; and
() officers and non-commissioned officers of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, and such other members of the Corps as shall have been exempted from jury service by the Governor in Council;
Provided that no person who is in the service of the Crown, and whose whole time is at the disposal of the Crown, shall be entitled to be included in the said register.
(5) If any question arises as to the right of any person to be included in the second part of the said register such question shall be decided by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, subject to an appeal within seven days to the Governor- in-Council whose decision thereupon shall be final; Provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to vary such decision at any time.
(6) Subject to any rules which may have been made under s. 9 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, or which be made under section 4 of this Ordinance, the
may second part of the said register shall be closed to any fresh applications for registration for fourteen days before the day appointed for any ballot for the election of a member of the Urban Council, and shall remain closed until after the ballot- ing in that election shall have been completed.
(7) Every person who at any ballot held under this sec- tion applies for a ballot paper in the name of some other person, whether that name be that of a person living or dead or of a fictitious person, or who, having voted once at any such ballot, applies at the same ballot for a ballot paper in his own name, and every person who, for the purpose of procuring his registration in the second part of the register referred to in sub-sections (2) to (6), knowingly makes any false or misleading representation, whether verbal or in writ- ing or by conduct, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding $500 and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.
(8) If any question arises as to the validity of any pro- ceeding in any election or intended election of a member of
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the Urban Council the decision of the Governor in Council thereon shall be final and conclusive for all purposes what- soever, and the Governor in Council may thereupon give any direction which he may think fit.
(9) The other four additional members (two of whom
shall be Chinese) shall be appointed by the Governor.
election of
4. All matters relating to the keeping and revision of the Rules as to register and to the election of the members shall be governed members of by rules made by the Governor in Council: Provided that the Council. the rules made under section 9 of the Public Health and G.N. 408 of Buildings Ordinance, 1903, shall remain in force so far as they are applicable until they are altered or replaced by rules made by the Governor in Council under this section.
5. The names of all additional members elected or ap- pointed shall be forthwith notified in the Gazette.
1927,
Members'
names to be gazetted.
Substitution
6. If any member of the Council be at any time prevent of members. ed for more than six months by absence or other cause from acting, the Governor may appoint, or if the member has been elected, the electors may nominate, and if more than one candidate is nominated may elect, some other person to re- place such member, until he shall return or be able to resume his functions.
Duties of
7. The duties of the Urban Council shall be to exercise the Urban control within the area allotted to it over all matters in respect Council. of which powers are given to it by this Ordinance or any other Ordinance.
Director of
8. It shall be the duty of the Director of Medical and Duty of the Sanitary Services to assist and advise the Urban Council in Medical and matters relating to Public Health and to superintend the Sanitary enforcement and observance of the Ordinances relating to Public Health and of the by-laws and regulations made thereunder.
Services.
Constitution unaffected
on the
Council.
9. The Council shall be held to be legally constituted not- withstanding any vacancies occurring therein by the death, by vacancies absence, resignation, or incapacity of any member.
10. (1) The Council shall meet once in every alternate Council
meetings. week and oftener if need be, and may adjourn from time to time. The Chairman may at any time, and shall, on a requisi- tion signed by three members of the Council, summon a meet- ing thereof.
(2) Any four members shall be a quorum, and at every Quorum, meeting at which the Chairman or Vice-Chairman is absent the members present shall appoint a temporary chairman to pre- side. The chairman at any meeting shall have a deliberate and also, if the votes be equal, a casting vote.
11.--(1) The Council may make Standing Orders for re- Standing gulating the procedure at its meetings.
(2) The present Standing Orders of the Sanitary Board shall continue in force so far as they are applicable until re- placed under this section.
orders.
committees.
12.-(1) The Council may appoint select committees, Appointment consisting of not less than two of its members or one of its of select members and a Health Officer or a Veterinary Officer, and may by appointment or removal change the personnel of any such committee.
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