SUPREME COURT ORDINANCE.
(Chapter 4).
THE RULES OF THE SUPREME COURT
(AMENDMENT) (NO. 2) RULES 1971.
We, the Rules Committee of the Supreme Court, being the Authority having for the time being power under section 38 of the Supreme Court Ordinance to make, amend or revoke rules regulating the practice and procedure of the Supreme Court of Hong Kong, hereby exercise those powers as follows:---
1. These rules may be cited as the Rules of the Supreme Court (Amendment) (No. 2) Rules 1971.
Order 12. rule 7 of the principal rules is amended in paragraph (1) by deleting "the Registrar".
3. Order 13, cule | of the principal rules is amended in paragraph (1) by deleting "Registrar" and substituting "Court".
4. Order 32 of the principal rules is amended-
(a) by deleting the heading "POWERS OF THE Registrar” and substituting "POWERS OF THE Registrar, Judges AND THE COURT"; and
(6) by deleting rule 11 and substituting the following-
*11. (1) The Registrar shall have power to transact all such business and exercise all such authority and jurisdiction as under the Ordinance or these rules may be transacted and exercised by a judge in chambers except in respect of the following matters and proceedings, that is to say-
(a) matters relating to criminal proceedings:
(b) matters relating to the liberty of the
subject:
(d) subject to paragraph (2), proceedings for the grant of an injunction or other order under Order 29.
(f) any other matter or proceeding which by any of these rules is required to be heard only by a judge.
Citation.
Amendment of 0.12. (Cap. 4, gb, lem.)
Amendment of 0. 13.
Amendment of 0. 32.