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Clerk to the Legislative Council.
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 bitt.
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No. 92 or 1975
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Dony Roberts
Acting governor.
18th December, 1975.
Ao Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to the constitu- tion, jurisdiction, practice and powers of the Supreme Court and the administration of justice therein and for matters ancillary thereto and connected therewith.
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Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.
PART I
PRELIMINARY
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Supreme Court Ordinance 1975 Stun dike and and shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor commecomedt. by notice in the Gazelle.
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires— "action" means a civil proceeding commenced by writ of summons of in
such other manner as may be prescribed by any law; "application for habeas corpus” metus an application for a writ of habeas corpus ad subjiciendum and references to a criminal application or civil application shall be construed according as the application does or does not constitute a criminal cause or matter;
"cause" means any action, suit or other original proceeding between a
plaintiff and a defendant;
"Commissioner” means a Commissioner appointed under section 10(1); "defendant" includes any person served with any writ of summons or process, or served with police of, or entitled to attend, any proceedings;
Interpretallica.