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HONG KONG

24 OF 1940,

I assent..

Governor.

19th May, 1949.

An Ordinance to amend the Magistrates Ordinance, 1983.

[20th May, 1949.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof;

7. This Ordinance may be cited as the Magistrates (Amendment) Short title. Ordinance, 1949, and shall be read as one with the Magistrates Ordinance, 1982, hereinafter referred to as the principel Ordinance.

Ordinance No. 4 of 1932.

2. The following interpretation shall be substituted for the inter. Amendment pretation given to the term "magistrate" in the principal Ordinance ;- of section a

" "Magistrate' includes a permanent magistrate and a special principal magistrate.

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Ordinance,

3. The following section is hereby substituted for section 5 of Sobeditation the principal Ordinanes :-

of new sectioa for section 5 5. (1) The Governor may by warrant under his of the hund from time to time appoint Buch number of permanent principal

Ordinance. and special magistrates as are in his opinion required for the eficient administration of justice in the Colony and may in the case of special magistrates by such warrant limit the jurisdiction and powers to be exercised by the person so appointed. Such appointments shall be notified in the Gazette.

"ppoint permanent

Red special magisuales.

(3) A permanent maagistrate shall exercise all the jurisdiction and powers conferred on a magistrate or a police magistrale by any actment in force in the Colony and also such jurisdiction and powers as may from time to time be conferred on a permanent magistrate.