2
Addition of section 24.
4. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding the following section after section 23-
*Amend
24. The Governor may, by order published in meat of the Gazette, amend the First Schedule.".
First Schedule.
Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 26′′ day of March, 1969.
HONG KON
No. 15 of 1969.
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
(Secretariat ECON 7/3231/68)
I assent.
trench.
-Governor"
27th March, 1969.
An Ordinance to amend further the Criminal Procedure Ordinance.
[28th March, 1969.) Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Ordinance 1969.
2. Section 9 of the principal Ordinance is amended in sub- section (2) by deleting "the assigning of solicitors and counsel as legal aids, the fees and costs to be allowed therefor,".
3. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding in Part I after section 9 the following new section-
*Legal aid
in criminal
wasth
NCC Chap. 91, LEXAN
9A. (1) The Chief Justice may, with the ap- proval of the Legislative Council, make rules pro- viding for the granting of legal aid in criminal cases to persons of limited means which rules, in particular. may
(a) make provision as to the information to be given by a person seeking or receiving kgal aid;
Short Mule.
Amendment of section 9. (Cap. 2015
Addition of new section 9A.