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Compensation Ordinance, 1963, but are more substantial where charged against employers. Even though the fees charged to workmen or dependants are nominal it has been found that in many cases it is a hardship for applicants to pay them and it has been necessary to arrange for the applicants concerned to be admitted as paupers under Order 21 of the Code of Civil Procedure to enable them to bring proceedings. Employers have contanded that it is inequitable to require them to pay court fees in addition to the actual amount of compensation determined by the Court. The income actually raised by these fees is small compared with the work involved in collecting them and negligible in comparison with the coat of administering the payments received and disbursed in connexion with the Workmen's Compensation Ordinance, 1953.

g In the circumstances and having regard to the measure of liability which Government has already accepted in providing this service for the benefit of the community, it has been decidod ta abolish all Court fees relating to workmen's compensation claims and awards and enforcement thereof. This abolition is effected by rules 2 and 3 of the above rules and such abolition will become effective on the date the rules are published in the Gazette.

(Secretariat 7569/45)

BIRTHS AND DEATHS REGISTRATION ORDINANCE. (Chapter 174).

Births and Deaths RegistrATION (AMENTImext of SchedULE) REGULATIONS, 1956.

In exercise of the powers conferred by subsection (2) of section 29 of the Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance, the Governor in Council has made the following regulations

1. These regulations may be cited as the Births and Deaths Citation. Registration (Amendment of Schedule) Regulations, 1956.

of First

2. The First Schedule to the Births and Deaths Registration (Cap. 174). Ordinance is amended by the deletion from item 7 under the Amendment heading "BIRTII REGISTER OFFICES" of the words Schedule. "Shamshuipo Chinese Public Dispensary" and the substitution therefor of the following-

"Shamshuipo District Birth Registry".

COUNCIL CHAMBER,

29th August, 1956.

Les infnolds.

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

Explanatory Note.

Office space on the first floor of the Shamabcipo District Branch Office has been allotted for the accommodation of the Shamshuipo District Birth Register Office, hitherto accommodated in the Shamshuipo Public Dispensary.

(Secretariat 19/3231/48)