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Ordinance
No. 6 of 1887.
Ordinance No. 8 of 1929.
Ordinances Nos. 1 of 1884, 16 of 1914, and
9 of 1916.
Ordinance No. 1 of
1903.
(3) The first part of the register shall consist of the two Jurors Lists for the current jury year brought into force under the provisions of the Jury Ordinance, 1887, as amended by the Jury Amendment Ordinance, 1929.
(4) The second part of the said register, which shall be kept by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, shall consist of the names of all male persons of any of the following classes who shall have duly applied to be registered therein, and whose claims to be registered shall have been duly allowed :—
(a) unofficial members of the Executive or Legislative Council;
(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 and sub-editors 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;
() certificated officers of the British Mercantile Marine; and
officers and non-commissioned officers of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force, and also such other members of the said Corps or of the said Force 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 section 9 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, or which may be made under section 4 of this Ordinance, the 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 (3) to (7), 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 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 six additional members (three of whom shall be Chinese) shall be appointed by the Governor.
(10) Persons, whether elected or appointed by the Governor, who immediately before the commencement of this Ordinance were serving as additional members of the Sanitary Board under the provisions of section 8 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, shall be additional members of the Urban Council as if they had been elected or appointed under this section but shall remain in office only until the expiration of the terms for which they were originally elected
or appointed as members of the Sanitary Board.
members 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 election 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.
1927.
5. The names of all members elected or appointed shall Members'
be forthwith notified in the Gazette.
names to be gazetted.
6. If any member of the Council be at any time prevent Substitution
ed for more than six months by absence or other cause from of members. 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.
7. The duties of the Council shall be to exercise Duties of control within the area allotted to it over all matters in respect the Council of which powers are given to it by this Ordinance or any other Ordinance.
8. For the purpose of carrying out the provisions of the Preserving law in respect of matters over which the Council exercises existence of control there shall be a Sanitary Department.
Sanitary Department.
9. The Governor may appoint a Secretary and Assistant Appointment Secretaries to the Council, and also Health Officers, Veterinary of officers- Officers and Sanitary and other Inspectors, all of whom shall be officers of the Sanitary Department, and may also appoint such servants of the Department as may be required.
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