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Ordinance No. 6 of 1887.

Ordinance No. 8 of 1929.

Ordinances Nos. 1 of 1884, 16 of 1914, and

9 of 1916.

Ordinance No. 1 of 1903.

(3) The first part of the register shall consist of the two Jurors Lists for the current jury year brought into force under the provisions of the Jury Ordinance, 1887, as amended by the Jury Amendment Ordinance, 1929.

(4) The second part of the said register, which shall be kept by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, shall consist of the names of all male persons of any of the following classes who shall have duly applied to be registered therein, and whose claims to be registered shall have been duly allowed :—

(a) unofficial members of the Executive or Legislative Council;

(b) persons of sound mind who have previously been in- cluded in the Jurors Lists but have been omitted or removed therefrom on account of age or infirmity, or on account of exemption from jury service granted by the Governor in Council or by the Court;

(c) barristers and solicitors in actual practice and the clerks of solicitors in actual practice;

(d) persons registered under section 4 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884, or under the Dentistry Ordin- ance, 1914, or under the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1916;

(e) editors and sub-editors of daily newspapers published in the Colony;

(f) clergymen of the Church of England, Roman Catholic priests, and ministers of any congregation of Protestant Dis- senters or of Jews, acting as such in the Colony;

(g) professors and other academic officers of the Univer- sity of Hong Kong;

(h) masters of schools which are certified by the Director of Education as not being vernacular schools;

(i) certificated officers of the British Mercantile Marine; and

6) officers and non-commissioned officers of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force, and also such other members of the said Corps or of the said Force as shall have been exempted from jury service by the Governor in Council;

Provided that no person who is in the service of the Crown, and whose whole time is at the disposal of the Crown, shall be entitled to be included in the said register.

(5) If any question arises as to the right of any person to be included in the second part of the said register such question shall be decided by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, subject to an appeal within seven days to the Governor in Council whose decision thereupon shall be final; Provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to vary such decision at any time.

(6) Subject to any rules which may have been made under section 9 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, or which may be made under section 4 of this Ordinance, the second part of the said register shall be closed to any fresh applications for registration for fourteen days before the day appointed for any ballot for the election of a member of the Urban Council, and shall remain closed until after the ballot- ing in that election shall have been completed.