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Transitional provisions.

as the case may be, the carrying on of any process or work or the doing of anything in such a manner as aforesaid, involves imminent risk of serious bodily injury, make an interim order prohibiting either absolutely or subject to conditions, the use, carrying on or doing thereof until the earliest opportunity for hearing and determining the com plaint and may include in such interim order a direction that any machinery or plant located in such industrial unders taking shall be secured by a scal, lock or other device by ao inspector in such manner as the inspector may think necessary to prevent the operation of the machinery of plant without the seal, lock or other device being broker or removed.

(3) In the event of any contravention of or failure u comply with any order made by a magistrate under thi section or of any condition or direction contained in such order the proprietor of the industrial undertaking in respect of which the order is made shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to a fine of ten thousand dollars.".

4. Any registrable workplace in respect of which a certificate of registration is in force on the commencement of this Ordinance shall be deemed to have been registered under section 7 of the principal Ordinance, as replaced by this Ordinance, for the period of validity of such certificate.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which passed the Legislative Council on the Srk day of June, 1963, and found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill.

(Secretariat CR16/2961/460)

Crustre..

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

HONG KONG

No. 20 of 1963.

I assent.

Governor,

20th June, 1963.

An Ordinance to amend the District Court Ordinance, 1953,

[21st June, 1963.]

WHEREAS doubt has been expressed as to whether the whole of the Preamble. First Schedule to the District Court Ordinance, 1953, which specifies the C of 1953). civil jurisdiction of the District Court, is subject to the limitations imposed by section 5 of the Supreme Court (Summary Jurisdiction) Ordinance, Chapter 5:

AND WHEREAS this Schedule has been repealed by the District (21 of 1962). Court (Amendment) Ordinance, 1962, which is to come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by Proclamation, and which Ordinance further amends the District Court Ordinance, 1953, so as to provide that the District Court shall have "such civil and criminal jurisdiction and powers as are conferred upon it by this Ordinance and by any other enactment for the time being in force":

AND WHEREAS it was and is intended that any Ordinance may confer on the District Court such jurisdiction as seems proper and desirable at the time of the enactment thereof: