Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 28th day of January, 1970.
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.
HONG KONG
No. 16 of 1970.
I assent.
theuch.
Governor.
29th January, 1970.
An Ordinance to amend further the Magistrates Ordinance and to
make consequential amendments to other Ordinances.
[30th January, 1970.]
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 Magistrates (Amend- ment) Ordinance 1970.
2. The heading to Part IV of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting "INDICTABLE",
3. Section 88 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting subsection (1) and substituting the following-
"(1) Notwithstanding anything contained in any other provision of this Ordinance, whenever any person is accused before a magistrate of any indictable offence not
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Short title.
Amendment of heading to Part IV. (Cap. 227,3
Amendment of section 88.