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Repeal of sections 12, 13, 14 and

15.

Repeal and replacement

2

4. Sections 12, 13, 14 and 15 of the principal Ordinance are repealed.

5. Section 16 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following new section—

**Jurisdiction.

of section 16.

In and

matters.

Repeal of

16. The Supreme Court and the District Court shall have jurisdiction to bear and determine all questions and disputes at law or in equity in connexion with or in anywise arising out of or regarding any land in the New Territories:

Provided that nothing in this section shall confer any greater jurisdiction upon the District Court than it exercises from time to time with regard to questions and disputes at law or in equity in connexion with or in anywise arising out of or regarding land situated in any part of the Colony other than the New Territories.".

6. Part 1 of the principal Ordinance is hereby repealed, and'it

Part 11 and is hereby declared for the avoidance of doubt that the Supreme Court

declaration

as to juris-

diction of

Supreme Court and

District

Court.

and the District Court shall have respectively the jurisdiction in relation to the New Territories which those courts would have bad H. the said Part III had never been enacted.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 12th day of April, 1961.

HÃNG LUNG

No. 14 of 1961.

I assent,

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

Governor,

13th April, 1961.

(Secretariat GR[0/3231/52)

An Ordinance to amend the Road Traffic Ordinance, 1957.

[14th April, 1961)

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and

consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Road Traffic (Amend- Short title. ment) Ordinance, 1961.

2. Subsection (2) of section 2 of the Road Traffic Ordinance Amendment (bercinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance) is amended-

(a) by the deletion after the words "following classes" of the

symbol and the addition thereto of the following-→→

"which, in respect of any vehicle which is registered under any such class or any division thereof, indicate the purpose for which the vehicle may be lawfully used-";

of section 2. (39 of 1957).