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Ord. No. 78/81 SUPPLEMENTARY APPROPRIATION (1980-81)

ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE (MISCELLANEOUS Ord. No. 79/81

AMENDMENTS)

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Number

of Vote

Head of Expenditure

88. Transport Department

89. Treasury

90. Universities and Polytechnic

91. Urban Services Department

92. Environmental Protection Agency

Amount

$

722,849.61 2,345,875,64 73.430,986.23

38,446,123.72

1,464,904.67

6,119,851,871.93

Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 23rd day of December 1981.

Jennie CHOK,

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.

Jennie CHOK,

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

L.S.

HONG KONG

No. 79 OF 1981

I assent.

Murray MacLEHOSE, Governor.

23 December 1981

An Ordinance to make better provision for the administration of justice in relation to the jurisdiction of the courts and tribunals and for connected purposes.

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Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and con- sent of the Legislative Council thereof.

PART I

PRELIMINARY

1. (1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Administration of Short title and Justice (Miscellaneous Amendments) Ordinance 1981.

(2) This Ordinance shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette and the Governor may appoint different days for different provisions, for different purposes or for the same purpose in relation to different cases or classes of cases.

PART II

commencement.

FINANCIAL LIMIT OF JURISDICTION

2.

of the First Amendments 1 (1) The Ordinances mentioned in column Schedule are amended in the provisions mentioned in column 2 by to financial deleting the amounts mentioned in column 3 and substituting the amounts jurisdiction. mentioned in column 4.

limits of

First Schedule.

(2) The Estate Duty Ordinance is amended in section 22 by adding (Cap. 111.) after subsection (1B) the following-

"(1C) The amount mentioned in subsection (1B) may be amended by resolution of the Legislative Council.".

(3) The District Court Ordinance is amended—

(a) in section 50, by deleting "of eight per cent per annum, or at such other rate as may be prescribed," and substituting the following--

"fixed by the Chief Justice by notice published in the Gazette"; and

(b) by adding after section 73 the following-

"Amendment

of limits of

jurisdiction.

73A. The amounts mentioned in sections 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 41, 52 and 69 may be amended by resolution of the Legislative Council.".

(Cap. 336.)

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