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Amendments to Magistrates Ordinance
Following is a speech by the Secretary for Economic Services, Mr Gordon Siu, in moving the Third Schedule to the Magistrates Ordinance in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):
Mr President,
I move the motion standing in my name in the Order Paper which proposes that the Third Schedule to the Magistrates Ordinance, Chapter 227 be amended by resolution of this Council pursuant to section 18E(4) of the Ordinance.
Section 18E of the Ordinance provides that the defendant may plead guilty by letter to those offences specified in the Third Schedule. Item 2 in the Third Schedule specifies offences under regulation 3 (unlicensed dogs) and regulation 19 (improper control of dogs) of the Dogs and Cats Regulations, Chapter 167 as offences to which the defendant may plead guilty by letter. These two regulations have now been repealed and substituted by equivalent offences under the Rabies Ordinance, Chapter 421 and the Rabies Regulation. It is accordingly proposed that the Magistrates Ordinance should be amended by resolution of this Council to delete the references to the Dogs and Cats Regulations and to replace them. by the references to the two equivalent offences under the Rabies Regulation.
Mr President, I beg to move.
End/Wednesday, January 11, 1995
Four new judicial offices set up
Following is a speech by the Chief Secretary, the Hon Mrs Anson Chan, in moving a motion under the Judicial Service Commission Ordinance in the Legislative Council today (Wednesday):
Mr President,
On 8 July 1994, the Finance Committee of this Council approved the recommendation of its Establishment Sub-Committee that four new Judicial Officer ranks and posts should be created under the Court Leadership Scheme. These four new judicial offices are Chief District Judge, Chief Magistrate, Principal Presiding Officer, Labour Tribunal and Principal Adjudicator, Small Claims Tribunal.