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(4) The Registrar shall make available for inspection at his office during such hours as shall have been stipulated in such notice copies of the two lists.

(5) The two lists shall be in force from Sfteen days after the date when the notice referred to in sub- section (3) shall have been published in the Gazette until fifteen days after the date when the notice in respect of the lists settled in the next following year shall have been published."

Amendment 6. Section 14 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the deletion in the fifth and sixth lines of the words "the order shall

of section 14

Amendment

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be of no effect" and the substitution therefor of the following-

6.

"the matter shall be heard before a common jury".

Subsection (2) of section zu of the principal Ordinance

is repealed and replaced by the following-

"(2) In criminal cases special jurors shall not be entitled to any remuneration :

Provided always that the judge, on an application for a special jury in a criminal case, may order such special jury to be remunerated as in civil cases, and if such application shall have been made by the person accused such person shall deposit with the Registrar a sum sufficient to cover the expenses of such special jury; otherwise the trial shall proceed before a common jury."

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 9th day of February, 1955-

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

(Secretariat 62/3231/47)

HONG KONG

No. 7 OF 1955-

I assent.

маманним

Governor.

10th February, 1955-

An Ordinance to provide for the composition of the electorate for any election held in 1955 to fill vacancies in the four elected additional members of the Urban Council,

[irth February, 1955-]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows-

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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the 1955 Urban Council Short title. Election (Composition of Electorate) Ordinance, 1955.

2.

Urban

Notwithstanding the provisions of section 3 of the Urban Electorate Council Ordinance requiring the register of voters to be compiled for 1955 anew each year the persons entitled to vote at any election held Council in 1953 to fill vacancies in the four elected additional members of Election.

the Urban Council shall be-

(a) those persons whose names appear in any of the three parts of the register compiled under the provisions of the said Ordinance in 1954 for a similar election except those of such persons as have ceased to be entitled to vote at such an election in 1955; and

(Cap. 101).