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Amendment

of soction * of the

principal Ordinance.

Constitu- tion and

"judge" includes any judge of the Supreme Court whether appointed to act temporarily or not and, if and so long as provision exists in the law of the Colony of Singapore enabling the Chief Justice of Singapore to be or to be declared to be a member of the Full Court, the Chief Justice of Singapore.

3, (1) There shall be a Full Court which shall precedence, as occasion requires be constituted either by two or three judges as the Chief Justice may direct and shall be composed of such judges as the Chief Justice may direct.

(2) The judges shall take precedence in the following order--

(a) the Chief Justice;

(b) the Chief Justice of Singapore;

(c) the Puisne Judges according to the

priority of their respective appointments;

(d) persons appointed to act temporarily as judges according to the priority of their respective appointments.

(3) The Chief Justice shall be ex officia President of the Full Court: Provided that when any court is composed without the Chief Justice the President of the court shall be determined by the order of precedence prescribed by subsection (2)."

3. Subsection (4) of section 4 of the principal Ordinance is hereby amended by deleting all the words following the word "judge'' in the eighth line thereof and substituting therefor the words", if any, and if there is no such judgment or order, then the judgment or order of the President, shall be deemed to be the judgment of the Full Court."

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 28th day of June, 1950.

ILU

Clerk of Councils.

1

NO

HOME KONG

No. 16 OF 1950.

] assent.

Officer/Administering the Government.

29th June, 1950.

An Ordinance to amend further the Supreme Court Ordinance,

1873.

[30th June, 1950,]

Be it 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 Supreme Court Short title. Amendment Ordinance, 1950, and shall be read as one with the Supreme Court Ordinance, 1873, hereinafter referred to as the Ordinance principal Ordinance.

No. of

1873.

2. Subsection (2) of section g of the principal Ordinance Amendment is hereby amended by deleting in the third and fourth lines thereof the words symbols and figures following-

"or under the provisions of section 2 (4) of the Full Court Ordinance, 1933,".

of section of the principal Ordinance.