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This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.

HONG KONG

No. 91 OF 1970.

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

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I assent.

high Norman Walmer

Acting Governor.

5th November, 1970.

An Ordinance to amend the Magistrates Ordinance.

[6th November, 1970.]

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Magistrates (Amend- ment) (No. 2) Ordinance 1970.

2. Section 8 of the principal Ordinance is amended-

(a) by adding, after subsection (1), the following new sub-

section-

"(IA) Every such summons shall-

(a) be signed by the magistrate by whom it is

issued: or

(b) bear a facsimile signature of the magistrate stamped thereon by an officer of a magis- trate's court who is authorized in writing for that purpose by a magistrate.";

Short title.

Amendment of acction 8. (Cap. 2373