Amendment
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of section 8.
Amendment
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Section 8 of the principal Ordinance is amended-
by the deletion in subsection (I) of the words "five thousand dollars" wherever they occur and the substitution therefor of the following-
"Ien thousand dollars"; and
(b) by the insertion of the following new subsection-
(Cap. 116).
4.
*(3) Nothing in subsection (I) shall have the effect of giving jurisdiction to the Court in any proceedings relating to the recovery of any land or the title to any hereditament. where the annual rent or the rateable value, determined in accordance with the provisions of the Rating Ordinance, or the annual value of the land or bereditament, whichever is the least, exceeds five thousand dollars.”.
Subsection (1) of section 21 of the principal Ordinance is of section 21 amended by the deletion in paragraphs (2) and (d) of the words "five
thousand dollars" and the substitution therefor of the following-
Transitional provisions.
Supplemen- fary amend.
Inventa.
"ten thousand dollars".
$. (1) For the avoidance of doubts, it is bereby declared that. where any action or matter commenced in the Supreme Court before the commencement of this Ordinance has been brought within the jurisdiction of the District Court by reason of any amendment effected by section 2, 3 or 4, the Supreme Court or a judge thereof may order the transfer of such action or matter to the District Court under section 11 of the principal Ordinance.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in Section 14 of the principal Ordinance, where any action or matter commenced in the Supreme Court before the commencement of this Ordinance is ordered to be transferred from the Supreme Court to the District Court by reason of any amendment effected by section 2, 3 or 4, then, as regards so much of the proceedings as takes place in the Supreme Court before transfer, the District Court may, if satisfied that there was sufficient reason for bringing the action in the Supreme Court and subject to any order of the Supreme Court, make an order allowing costs on the Supreme Court scale or on any District Court scale.
(3) In relation to any action or matter commenced in the Court before the commencement of this Ordinance, a judge may refuse to make an order under subsection (1) of section 10 of the principal Ordin- ance, if the action or matter has been brought within the jurisdiction of the Court by reason of any amendment effected by section 2, 3 or 4.
6. The enactments specified in the first column of the Schedule are amended to the extent and in the manner set out in the second column thereof.
Short title.
SCHEDULE.
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SUPPLEMENTARY AMENDMENTS,
1. Estate Duty Ordinance.
2. laland Revenue Ordinance.
3. Rating Ordinance.
4. Buildings Ordinance 1955.
5. Legal Practitioners Ordinance 1964.
Amendment.
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Section 16 is amended in subsection (Cm. 111, (2) by the deletion of "five thousand 1959 &corion). dollars" and the substitution therefor of the following-
"ten thousand dollar”,
Section 75 is amended by the deletion (Cxp. 112, in subsection (2) of "five thousand dollars" 1956 Replin). and the substitution therefor of the
following-
"ten thousand dollars”.
Section 36 is amended by the deletion (Cua. 116). of "five thousand dollars" and the sub- stitution therefor of the following-
"ten thousand dollars",
Section 23 is amended by the deletion (68 of 1955, in subsection (6) of "five thousand dollars" 1960 Repolat). and che substitution therefor of tho following-
"en thousand dollars”.
Section 61 is amended by the deletion (16 of 1960). in subsection (3) of the words "live thousand dollars" in both places where they occur and the substitution therefor of the following--
"ten thousand dollars”,
This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which passed the Legislative Council on the 23rd day of November, 1966, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill.
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
(Secretariat GR20/3231/521)