C.S.O.
[No. 25—7.11.32.—5.]
A BILL
INTITULED
An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to the jurisdiction of magistrates and the procedure and practice before magistrates in relation to offences punish- able on summary conviction and to indictable offences and for other purposes.
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 Magistrates Short title. Ordinance, 1932.
Preliminary.
2. In this Ordinance,
(a) "Appellant" means the party appealing under Part VI from a decision of a magistrate.
(b) "Civil debt" means any sum of money claimed to be due which is recoverable before a magistrate on complaint and not on information.
(c) "Counsel" means any barrister, advocate or solicitor having the right of audience before any court in the Colony.
(d) "The court" means the Supreme Court.
(e) "Fine" includes any pecuniary penalty or pecuniary forfeiture or pecuniary compensation payable under a con-
viction or order.
(f) "Indictable offence" means any crime or offence for which a magistrate is authorised or empowered or required to commit the accused person to prison for trial before the
court.
(g) "Indictment" includes an information in the court.
(h) "Magistrate" includes two magistrates where two magistrates sit together.
Interpreta-
tion.
c. 49, s. 48.
(i) "The magistrates' clerk" includes (where there is 42 & 43 Vict. more than one) either or any of such clerks or such other person as a magistrate directs to do anything required by this Ordinance to be done by the magistrates' clerk.
(i) "Party" includes the Crown and also any person ag- grieved within the meaning of section 100 or section 105.
(k) "Prescribed" means prescribed or provided by any 42 & 43 Vict. enactment which relates to any offences, penalties, fines, costs, c. 49, s. 49. sums of money, orders, proceedings or matters to the punish- ment, recovery, making or conduct of which this Ordinance expressly or impliedly applies or may be applied.
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