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A.D. 1933.]
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE
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AMENDMENT.
HONG KONG.
No. 5 OF 1933.
I assent.
W. PEEL,
L.S.
Governor.
24th March, 1933.
An Ordinance to amend the Criminal Procedure Ordinance,
1899.
[24th March, 1933.]
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 Criminal Short title. Procedure Amendment Ordinance, 1933.
2. Section 10 of the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, Substitu- 1899, is repealed and the following section is substituted ion for therefor :-
Ordinance No. 9 of 1899, s. 10.
10.-(1) The Chief Justice may make rules and orders Rules and regulating the practice and procedure under this Ordinance :
orders as to practice and pro-
Provided that no such rules and orders shall be binding cedure. until the same have been approved by the Legislative Council and have been published in the Gazette.
(2) Such rules and orders may provide for regulating and prescribing forms to be used, the times for or within which documents must be filed or notices given, the duties of the various officers of the court, the manner in which cases and arguments are to be presented, the assigning of solicitors and counsel as legal aids in or incidental to capital cases, or appeals or cases reserved, the fees and costs to be allowed therefor, and generally for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance.
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