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Calcula-

ttoo of percentage increases.

Non-

contentious proceed- ings.

(Cap. 159).

Applica- tion.

2

3. For the purpose of rule a hereof any increase in the total of a bill of costs permitted by the Costs (Increase) Rules, or by the rules made by the Rules Committee and published as Gazette Notification No. A.z on the 18th December, 1951, or permitted by any legally enacted variation thereof or addition thereto, shall be allowed by the registrar upon taxation only in respect of items which would in a bill rendered by or against a private party be allowable as the costs (as distinct from disbursements) of a solicitor.

4. For the purpose of any agreement for the payment of fees and costs in non-contentious matters a legal officer shall be deemed to have the status of a barrister and solicitor duly admitted under the Legal Practitioners Ordinance.

5. These rules shall apply to pending proceedings but not to any item which shall have been taxed or agreed prior to the enactment hercof.

Alaved

(T. 'J. GOULD)

Acting Chief Justice.

Approved under section to of the Ordinance by resolution. of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong this seventh day of October, 1953-

MAGISTRATES ORDINANCE.

(Chapter 227).

Magistrates (ADMINISTRATIVE) (Amendment) Rules, 1953-

In exercise of the powers conferred by section 131 of the Magistrates Ordinance, the Governar in Council has made the following rules-

1.

These rules may be cited as the Magistrates (Adminis‐ Citation. trative) (Amendment) Rules, 1953.

છું. Rule 2 of the Magistrates (Administrative) Rules Rescission (hereinafter referred to as the principal rules) is rescinded.

of rule 2, (Vol. XI, p. 138).

of the

3. The Appendix to the principal rules is amended by the Amendment deletion of Forms and 2, and the substitution therefor of the Appendix. following-

FORM 1.

IN THE MAGISTRATE'S COURT AT

REGISTER.

[r. 1, 3.

VICTORIA

KOWLOON

HONG KONG.

No. of cones ar recordad

Date of Registration

Arrested

Suomoned

Name of Informat or Com-

pla

Name of

Dotandut

Cha

Without "RITTELNĚ

Council CHAMBER,

7th October, 1953-

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

(1)

Explanatory Note.

The Legal Officera Ordinance (Chapter 87 of the Revised Edition}, amonget its other provisions, provides In effect that the law officers and the other legal officers of the legal department may exercise the usual functions both of barristers and of solicitors. These rules made under that Ordinance provide for the manner of assessing costs in matters in which such legal officers are engaged. They also provide that if the Attorney General or Solicitor General is personally engaged in litigious proceedings for the Crown his rervices may by order of the court or registrar be remunerated as those of leading counsel whether he has in fact taken silk or is a member of the junior Bar.

(Secretariat 23/3231/53)

(3)

៥

Nature of offence

or matter

of Com- plaint

401

(7)

Defendant imprisoned

Ordinance

Dr Stalate

Mapletrate Aisadi- cating

Date of

carton

Minute or Mid- cation

Peremp

tory

Ink of Committl

ne or security

WETTELI

No.

(8)

10)

(10)

(11)

(12)

(18)

(147