HONG CONG
No. 6 of 1971.
I assent.
Krench
Миса
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
before a
19A. (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 enter
a plea of guilty or not guilty.
1967, c. $0. 1. 29.
(2) Where a representative enters a plea of not guilty under subsection (1), he may exercise the rights under subsection (I) of section 16 as if he were an
Addition of
Daw section 19A. (Cap. 227)