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Reply of Board.

Notice of hearing.

Practice. and procedure.

Application,

4. (0) Within twenty-one days of the service of the notice of appeal, the Chairman of the Board shall file in Court the Board's reply, which shall be signed by him or the Board's solicitor or, where it has been settled by counsel shall be signed by him together with a complete transcript of the proceedings in the matter. The Board's reply shall set forth in paragraphs consecutively numbered a cuncise statement of the facts, which shall be verified by affidavit, and the grounds upon which the Board intends to rely in rebuttal,

(2) The Chairman of the Board shall within seven days of the filing of the Board's reply cause a copy thereof to be served upon the appellant.

5. The Registrar of the Supreme Court shall upon the filing of the Board's reply set down the appeal for hearing on a date not less than twenty-one days after the date of filing of such reply.

6. Subject to the express provisions of these rules, the practice and procedure of the Court in relation to an appeal shall be assimilated as nearly as may be to the practice and procedure for the time being of the Supreme Court in the exercise of its civil jurisdiction.

7. Nothing in these rules shall operate to the prejudice of any appeal raade under the provisions of section 131F of the Ordinance and pending at the date when these rules come into force.

Made this 7th day of May, 1956.

Chief Justice

(Secretariat 18/3231/56.)

སྙན་ཆབ་མཆ

PROCLAMATION

No. 1 of 1956.

Manda.

Governor.

By His EXCELLENCE SIR ALEXANDER WILLIAM GEORGE HERDER GRANTHAM, Knight Grand Cross of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George, Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hong Kong and its Dependencies and Vice Admiral of the same.

WHEREAS by subsection (1) of section 1 of the Buildings Ordinance, 1955 (No. 68 of 1955), it is provided that the said Ordinance shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by proclamation in the Gavelle i

NOW THEREFORE I, ALEXANDER WILLIAM GEORGE HERDER GRANTHAM, do hereby PROCLAIM that the said Ordinance shall come into operation on the 1st day of June, 1956.