HONG LONG
No. 6 OF 1971.
I assent.
Wrench
-Governor.
25th February, 1971.
An Ordinance to amend the Magistrates Ordinance and to amend
consequentially the Defamation Ordinance.
[26th February, 1971.)
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. Short tille. ment) Ordinance 1971.***
2. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding, after section 19, the following new section-
"Plea by a
194. (1) On the hearing by a magistrate of any corporation complaint or information against a corporation, a magistrate. Tepresentative may on behalf of the corporation coter
a plea of guilty or not guilty.
before a
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(2) Where a representative enters a ples of not guilty under subsection (1), he may exercise the rights under subsection (1) of section 16 as if he were an
Addition of
Daw section 19A. (Cap. 2273)