No. 6.
PROCLAMATION.
N.L. Sunth
The Officer Administering the Government,
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WHEREAS the office of the District Officer for the Southern District of the New Territories has been moved from the building known as "St. George's Building" situate at the corner of Chater Road und Ice House Street, Victoria, in this Colony, to the second floor of the building known as "Queen's Buikling" at the corner of Chater Road and Statue Square Victoria aforesaid, and it is expedient that the present office should be appointed and declared to be a court-house for all purposes and functions of a magistrate:
AND WHEREAS it is convenient (without prejudice to any previous proclamation, notification or authorization) that all the court-houses of magistrates in this Colony should be included in this proclamation ?
NOW THEREFORE 1, NORMAN LOCKHART SMITH, the Officer Administering the Government of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies, do hereby appoint the following several places as Court-houses where a magistrate may sit to hear and try and determine and deal with com- plaints and informations and other matters to be heard and tried and determined and dealt with by him as a magistrate in an open court. including, where the magistrate is authorised for the purpose, the holding of a Small Debts Court us mentioned in section 58 of the New Territories Regulation Ordinance, 1910-
1. The Magistracy, Victoria.
2. The Marine Magistrates Court, Harbour Office Buil-
ding, Victoria.
3. The Magistracy, Kowloon.
4. The Magistracy, Taipo,
5. The Charge Room at the Police Station at Ping Shan
in the Northern District of the New Territories.
6. The District Land Office at Ping Shan in the Northern
District of the New Territories.
7. The Charge Boom at the Police Station at Âu Tau in
the Northern District of the New Territories: