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Amendment of section 9.

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Amendment of section 15.

Repeal and

section 29.

teplacement of

Repeal and replacement of section 31.

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4. Section 9 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting subsection (3A) and substituting the following new sub-

section-

"(3A) In settling any list under this section the Registrar may, without any application under subsection (2) is that behalf, remove from the list the name of any person who he has reason to believe to have died or left the Colony permanently.”.

5.

Section 15 of the principal Ordinance is amended by inserting the following in subsection (1) after "list"-

"or within such further period as the court or a judge may allow"

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6. Section 29 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following-

"Challenge

of jurors by accused.

29. A person arraigned on an indictment for any offence may challenge not more than five jurors without cause and any juror of jurors for cause.'

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7. Section 31 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following-

"Paymen! of jurora.

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31. (1) A person who serves as a juror in any case, criminal or civil, or in any inquiry under the Coroners Ordinance, shall be paid an allowance, at such rate as the Governor may prescribe by order published in the Gazette.

(2) In addition to the allowance paid to him under subsection (1), a person who serves as a juror may be paid an additional allowance under this subsection if

(a) in the case of proceedings in the Supreme Court, the Chief Justice or the trial judge:

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(b) in the case of an inquiry under the Coroners

Ordinance, the Chief Justice.

so orders.

(3) The allowance paid to a person under sub- section (2) shall be of such amount as the Chief Justice or the judge may direct, but shall not exceed such rate as the Governor may prescribe by order published in the Gazette.".

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8. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding after section 32 the following new section--

""Punishment 32A. (1) No employer shall terminate, or threat- of employer en to terminate, the employment of, or in anyway ing against discriminate against, any person employed by him by employee by reason of the fact that such petson-

discriminat-

Cesson of jury service.

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(a) has served, or is serving, as a juror in any proceedings in the Supreme Court or in any inquiry under the Coroners Ordinance;

(b) has been summoned under section 17 to appear as a juror at the Supreme Court; or (c) has been summoned under section 10 of the Coroners Ordinance to appear as a juror at an inquiry under that Ordinance.

(2) Any person who contravenes subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of three thousand dollars.".

Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 10th day of February, 1971.

"Clerk to the Legislative Council,

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.

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

Addition of new section