in the case of a tenancy commencing after the 1st day of July, 1963, to the expiration of a period of five years, from the commencement of the tenancy shall be and be deemed to have been inoperative,”.
This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which passed the Legislative Council on the 8th day of May, 1963, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the suid Bill.
HONG KONG
No. 16 of 1963.
FAN
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
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I assent.
Governor,
9th May, 1963.
An Ordinance to make amendments to the law relating to homicide.
[10th May, 1963.]
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 Homicide Ordinance, 1963, Short title,
2. (1) Where a person kills another in the course or furtherance Abolition of
malice".
of some other offence, the killing shall not amount to murder unless "constructive done with the same malice aforethought (express or implied) as is required for a killing to amount to murder when not done in the course or furtherance of another offence.
(2) For the purposes of subsection (1), a killing done in the course or for the purpose of resisting an officer of justice, or of resisting or avoiding or preventing a lawful arrest, or of effecting or assisting an escape or rescue from legal custody, shall be treated as a killing in the course or furtherance of an offence.
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