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Notice of result of committal proceedings. 1967, c.80, s.4.

87B. If a magistrate commits any person for trial

or determines to discharge him, the magistrates' clerk

shall, on the day on which the committal proceedings

are concluded or the next day, cause to be displayed in

a part of the court house to which the public have

access a notice in English and in Chinese

(a) in either case giving that person's name,

address and age (if known) ;

(b) in a case where the magistrate commits him,

stating the charge on which he is committed

and the court to which he is committed;

(c) in a case where the magistrate determines to

discharge him, describing the offence charged

and stating that the magistrate has so

determined."

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Consequential amendments

to Defamation Ordinance. (Cap. 21.)

6.

Section 13 of the Defamation Ordinance is amended by

(a) being renumbered as subsection (1) thereof; and

(b) inserting the following new subsection -

"1967, c.80, s.5.

(2) Any report in a newspaper, and

any broadcast report, of committal proceedings

in a case where publication is permitted by

virtue only of subsections (5) and (6) of