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No. 16 of 1950.
SUPREME COURT AMENDMENT
HONG KONG
Short title.
Ordinance No. 3 of 1873.
Amendment
No. 16 OF 1950.
L.S.
I assent.
J. F. NICOLL, Officer Administering the Government.
29th June, 1950.
An Ordinance to amend further the Supreme Court Ordinance,
1873.
[30th June, 1950.]
Be it 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 Supreme Court Amendment Ordinance, 1950, and shall be read as one with the Supreme Court Ordinance, 1873, hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance.
2. Subsection (2) of section 9 of the principal Ordinance of section 9 is hereby amended by deleting in the third and fourth lines thereof
the words symbols and figures following-
of the
principal
Ordinance.
Amendment
of section
10 of the principal Ordinance.
Amendment
of section
11 of the
principal Ordinance.
"or under the provisions of section 2 (4) of the Full Court Ordinance, 1933;”.
3. Subsection (4) of section 10 of the principal Ordinance is hereby amended by deleting the penultimate line thereof and substituting therefor the words "Chief Justice of Singapore when".
4. Section II of the principal Ordinance is hereby amended by inserting immediately after the figures "10" in the last line thereof a colon and the following proviso-
"Provided that if and so long as provision is made by or under the law of the Colony of Singapore directly or indirectly enabling the Chief Justice to be a member of the Court of Appeal and the Court of Criminal Appeal of the Colony of Singapore or either of them, it shall be lawful for the Chief Justice with the consent of the Governor-
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(a) to sit upon such Courts or either of them and to discharge his duties as a member thereof;
(b) to absent himself from the Colony for so long as may be required for such purposes as aforesaid and for returning to the Colony after the execution thereof; and
(c) to receive such remuneration and allowances (if any) as may be provided for out of the revenues of the Colony of Singapore and the revenue of the Colony or either of them.".
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 28th day of June, 1950.
G. C. HAMILTON,
Clerk of Councils.
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