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HONGKONG.

No. 21 of 1917:

I assent to this Ordinance.

F. H. MAY,

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Governor.

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14th September, 1917.

An Ordinance to amend further the Jury Ordli-

nance, 1887.

[14th September, 1917.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

tion.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Jury Amend- Short title ment Ordinance, 1917, and shall be road and coustrued and construc as one with the Jury Ordinance, 1887, hereinafter called the principal Ordinance, and with the Jury Amendment Ordinance Ordinance, 1914, and this Ordinance and the said Ordi- No. 6 of 1887.

Ordinance nances may be cited together as the Jury Ordinances, No. 26 of 1887 to 1917.

1014.

2. Section 4 of the principal Ordinance is amended Amendment as follows:-

of Ordinance

No. 6 of 1887

(a) by the addition of the following proviso at 4.

the end of clanse (2) thereof :--

"provided that no person shall for the

office or

"purposes of this Ordinance be "deemed to hold an "situation of emolument under the Crown by reason only of the fact "that such person is a member of "the Hongkong Defence Corps and as such member is or may be entitled to receive any pay under "the Military Service Ordinance, ** 1917;"

(b) by the repeal of clause (12) thereof and by the substitution of the following clause therefor :-

"(12) all officers and non-commissionel "officers of the Hongkong Defence Corps, and such other efficient "nembers of the Hongkong Defence "Corps as may be allowed by the **Governor in Council."

Passet the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 13th day of September, 1917-

A. G. M. FLETCHER, Clerk of Costacita,

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 14th day of September, 1917.

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.