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6. The principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the insertion therein after section B of the following section as section 8A-
"Power to add to ZuLtled Jary Linda.
SA. (1) If any person becomes liable for inclusion in the list of special jurors or in the list of common jurors at a dale subsequent to the sattle- ment of any such list in manoer provided in section 7 and section 8, the Registrar khall, subject to the provisions of this section, cause the name of such person to be posted for fourteen days at one of the entrances to the Courts of Justice.
(2) Any person may within the asid fourteen days apply by notice in writing to the Registrar requiring that his name or the name of some other person may be posted or removed, upon cause duly assigned in soot notice, and the Registrar shall, in his discretion, post or remove such name as he thinks fit.
(3) As soon as possible after the expiration of the said period of fourteen days, the Registrar shall make a list of the names so posted and forward it to the Clerk of Councils together with any notices served on him under the provisions of sub-
section (2).
(4) The said list and notices shall thereupon be considered by the Governor in Council, who may strike off any name from the list, and who shalt accordingly finally settle the said list.
(5) The list when finally settled by the Governor in Council shall be returned to the Registrar, who shall cause necessary addition to be made to the lists settled in manner provided by section 8. Such additions shall, from time to time, be published in the Gazette.
(6) Any such person whose name has been so added shall, for all purposes, be deemed to be a juror whose naine appeared in the lists settled in manner provided by section 8."
7. Section 16 of the principal Ordinance is hereby repealed and replaced as follows:-
"16. In any information or judictment for u criminal offence, it shall be lawful for the Attorney General by written notice to the Registrar, or for any judge, at his own instance or on the application of any private prosecutor or of the person accused, to order a special jury to be summoned for the trial
of the case and the Registrar shall forthwith form a panel of such jurors, and summon them in manner bereinbefore provided.”
8. The principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the insertion therein after section 16 of the following section as section 16A :----
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16A. It shall be lawful for any judge before whom a case is or may be heard, in his discretion--
(a) on an application made by or on behalf of the parties (including in criminal cases the prosecu- tion and the accused) or any of them, or at his own instance, to make an order that the jury shall be composed of men only or of women only, as the odse may require;
(b) on an application made by a woman to be exempted from service on a jury in respect of any case by reason of the nature of the evidence to be given or the issues to be tried, to grant such exemption."
Addition of section 16A bu the principal Ordinance.
9. The principal Ordinance is bereby amended by the Addition of addition thereto of the following section as section 36 :-
*Rules
36. (1) The Chief Justice may make rules for carrying this Ordinance into effect. Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing power such rules may prescribe-
(a) forms and summonses;
(b) the manner in which and the time within which application may be made for exemption from service as a jaror:
(c) liability, upon summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, upon any person who fails to furnish in the prescribed manner parti- culars demanded by the Registrar under section 6.
(2) Any such rules shall be laid as soon as may be before the Legislative Council and if that Council disapproves of such rules, or any of them, the rules so disapproved of shall henceforth be void, but without prejudice to the validity of anything doue thereunder.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this lat day of July, 1947.
Alastair Rock
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
Bection 36 to the
prinsipal Ordinance.
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