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CRIMINAL PROCEDURE (AMENDMENT)

Ord. No. 15/69.

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HONG KONG

L.S.

No. 15 OF 1969.

I assent.

D. C. C. TRENCH,

Governor.

27th March, 1969.

An Ordinance to amend further the Criminal Procedure Ordinance.

[28th March, 1969.]

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 Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Ordinance 1969.

2. Section 9 of the principal Ordinance is amended in sub- section (2) by deleting "the assigning of solicitors and counsel as legal aids, the fees and costs to be allowed therefor,".

3.

The principal Ordinance is amended by adding in Part I after section 9 the following new section-

"Legal aid in criminal

cases.

[Cf. Cap. 91, s. 28(2).]

9A. (1) The Chief Justice may, with the ap- proval of the Legislative Council, make rules pro- viding for the granting of legal aid in criminal cases to persons of limited means which rules, in particular,

may-

(a) make provision as to the information to be given by a person seeking or receiving legal aid;

(b) make provision as to the manner in which the rate of a person's disposable income and the amount of his disposable capital are to be computed for the purpose of the rules and the person or authority by whom such computation shall be made;

(c) determine whether any resources are to be treated as disposable income or disposable capital and for taking into account fluctua- tions of income;

(d) determine the contribution towards costs and expenses to be made by a person re- ceiving legal aid;

Short title.

Amendment of section 9. (Cap. 221.)

Addition of

new section 9A