HONG KONG
No. 11 of 1970.
I assent
Leuch
Governor.
29th January, 1970,
An Ordinance to amend further the District Court Ordinance.
[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 District Court (Amendment) Ordinance 1970.
2. Section 8 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting subsection (4).
3. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding, after section 3, the following new sections—
cates of
"Jurisdiction BA. Where a magistrate is appointed to be a in part-heard judge or a temporary judge be may, notwithstanding magistrate! such appointment, exercise and discharge all such appointed to jurisdiction, powers, authorities and duties as were prior to such appointment vested in him as a magis- trate, but in relation only to any proceedings which
be District Court
Judges.
Short title.
Amendment of section 8. (Cap. 5)
Addition of new sectiona 8A, 8B and BC.