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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 8, 1927.

NOTICES.

121

COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.

No. 207.-The following Order of His Majesty in Council is published for general information.

8th April, 1927.

P

W. T. SOUTHORN,

Colonial Secretary.

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The Judicial Committee Rules, 1925.

(S.R. & O. 1925, No. 440, L. 4.)

AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,

THE 2ND DAY OF MAY, 1925.

PRESENT:

THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.

LORD PRESIDENT,

LORD CHAMBERLAIN.

CHANCELLOR OF THE DUCHY OF

LANCASTER.

SIR GEORGE LLOYD.

HEREAS there was this day read at the Board a representation from the Judicial

Committee of the Privy Council in the words following, viz.:-

"The Lords of the Judicial Committee having taken into consideration the Practice and Procedure in accordance with which the general Appellate Jurisdiction of Your Majesty in Council is now exercised and being of opinion that the Rules regulating the said Practice and Procedure ought to be amended Their Lordships do hereby agree humbly to recommend to Your Majesty that with a view to such amendment certain Orders in Council regulating the said Practice and Procedure, viz., the Orders in Council dated respectively the 21st day of December, 1908, (a) the 23rd day of May, 1916, (b) the 25th day of March, 1920, (c) the 9th day of March, 1921, (d) and the 15th day of March, 1922, (e) amending the said Practice and Procedure ought to be revoked 'as from the 1st day of January, 1926, and that the several Rules hereunto annexed ought to be substituted therefor and ought to come into operation on that date."

His Majesty having taken the said representation into consideration was pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council, to approve thereof and to order, as it is here- by ordered, that the said Orders in Council in the said representation mentioned be and the same are hereby revoked as from the 1st day of January, 1926, and that the Rules hereunto annexed be substituted therefor to come into operation on that date.

Whereof all persons whom it may concern are to taken notice and govern them- selves accordingly.

(a) S.R. & O. 1908, No. 1288. (b) S.R. & O. 1919, No. 1810. (c) S.R. & O. 1922, No. 789.

M. P. A. HANKEY.

(d) S.R. & O. 1922, No. 278 (not printed

in S.R. & O. form.)

(e) S.R. & 0. 1922, No. 279.