Amendment
of Bection 69.
five hundred dollars," and the substitution therefor of the following-
"Where the whole estate in the Colony of any person dying in the Colony before the 1st day of October, 1953, does not exceed in value the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars and where the whole estate of any person dying in the Colony on or after the 1st day of October, 1953, does not exceed in value the sum of five thousand dollars,"¡
(b) the insertion in subsection (3) after the words "the sum
of two thousand five hundred dollars," of the following-
"or the sum of five thousand dollars, as the case may be,".
3.
Section 59 of the principal Ordinance is amenderi by- (a) the deletion therefrom of the brackets and figure "{1}"; (b) the insertion therein after the words "On the death" of
the following-
"before the 1st day of October, 1953,
(c) the insertion therein after the words "the Government of
the Colony," of the following-
"and on the death on or after the 1st day of October, 1953, of any person to whom any sum of money not exceeding five thousand dollars is so payable,”;
(d) the deletion of subsection (2).
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 17th day of August, 1955.
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
(Secretariat 7/3231/55)
HONG KONG
No. 33 OF 1955.
I assent.
Governor.
18th August, 1955-
An Ordinance to amend the Jury Ordinance, Chapter 3.
[19th August, 1955.]
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 Jury (Amendment) Short title, (No. 2) Ordinance, 1955.
1.
and re-
Section 14 of the Jury Ordinance (hereinafter referred Repeal to as the principal Ordinance) is repealed and replaced by the following section-
"Juries
in civil
etion.
placement of section 14.
14. (1) Where the court or a judge orders that (Cap. 3). a cause shall be heard before a special or common jury, the party applying for such order shall, when