Basis of tation.
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7. Costs shall be taxed for the purposes of these regulations according to the ordinary rules applicable on a taxation as between solicitor and client where the costs are to be paid out of a common fund in which the client and others are interested.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
20th December, 1966.
Explanatory Note.
Helfanilo
Clerk of Councils.
(This Note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purport).
These regulations govern the fees to be paid to solicitors and counsel for work undertaken by them under the legal aid scheme.
2.
Regulations 2 and 3 prescribe fees of between $150 and 3800 for reports under sections 9 and 16 of the Ordinance.
3. Under regulation 4, counsel will receive taxed fees. By regulation 5 a solicitor will receive the full amount of disbursements and 80 per cent of ble taxed costs.
(Secretariat GR9/3221/490)
PUBLIC SERVICES COMMISSION ORDINANCE.
(Chapter 93).
PUBLIC SERVICES COMMISSION (AMENDMENT)
REGULATIONS 1966.
In exercise of the powers conferred by section 14 of the Public Services Commission Ordinance, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations--
1. These regulations may be cited as the Public Services Com- Citation. mission (Amendment) Regulations 1966.
tion 2.
2. Regulation 2 of the Public Services Commission Regulations Amendment (hereinafter referred to as the principal regulations) is amended by of regula- the deletion of the definition "efficiency bar", "probation bar", "pro- (vol. IX. motion bar" and "promotion stop", and by the substitution therefor of the following--
"efficiency bar", "incremental date", "probation bar", "promotion bar" and "promotion step" have the same meanings as in the Regulations of the Government of Hong Kong:".
A. 30.
3. Paragraph (2) of regulation 3 of the principal regulations is Amendment amended-
of regula Bon 3.
(a) in sub-paragraph (a), by the deletion of "nine hundred and thirty dollars" and the substitution therefor of the following-
"one thousand and seventy dollars"; and
(b) in sub-paragraph (b), by the deletion of "six hundred and
ninety dollars" and the substitution therefor of the following-
"eight hundred dollars".
4. Paragraph (2) of regulation 4 of the principal regulations is Amendment amended by--
of regula- tion 4.
(a) the deletion of "immediately" and the substitution therefor
of the following-
"on the next incremental date":
(6) the deletion in sub-paragraph (a) of "nine hundred and thirty
dollars" and the substitution therefor of the fallowing—
"one thousand and seventy dollars"; and
(c) the deletion in sub-paragraph (b) of "six hundred and ninety dollars" and the substitution therefor of the following-
"eight hundred dollars".