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514 THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 25, 1927.

SUPREME COURT.

No. 703.-It is hereby notified that, by command of His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, and pursuant to the Public Health and Buildings Ordi- nance, 1903, as amended by the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1927, an Election of a member of the Sanitary Board will take place at the City Hall on Friday, the 30th day of December, 1927, commencing at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.

Sub-sections 2 to 8 of the amended section 5 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, which govern the right to vote at the election, read as follows:-

(2) Two of the said additional members shall be elected by an electorate com- posed of the persons whose names shall appear in one or other of the two parts of the register hereinafter referred to.

(3) The first part of the register shall consist of the two Jurors Lists for the current jury year brought into force under the provisions of the Jury Ordinance, 1887.

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(4) The second part of the said register, which shall be kept by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, shall consist of the names of all male persons of any of the following classes who shall have duly applied to be registered therein, and whose claims to be regis ered shall have been duly allowed :-

(a) unofficial members of the Executive or Legislative Council; (b) persons of sound mind who have previously been included in the jurors lists but have been omitted therefrom on account of age or infirmity;

(e) barristers and solicitors in actual practice and the clerks of

solicitors in actual practice;

(d) persons registered under Section 4 of the Medical Registration Ordinance, 1884, or under the Dentistry Ordinance, 1914, or under the Pharmacy and Poisons Ordinance, 1916;

(e) editors, sub-editors and reporters of daily newspapers published

in the Colony ;*

(f) clergymen of the Church of England, Roman Catholic priests, and ministers of any congregation of Protestant Dissenters or Jews, acting as such in the Colony;

(g) professors and other academic officers of the University of

Hong Kong;

(h) masters of schools which are certified by the Director of Educa-

tion as not being vernacular schools;

(i) masters of steamers and local pilots; and

() officers and non-commissioned officers of the Hong Kong Volun- teer Corps, and such other members of the Hong Kong Defence Corps as shall have been exempted from jury service by the Governor in Council;

Provided that no person who is in the service of the Crown, and whose whole time is at the disposal of the Crown, shall be entitled to be included in the said register.

(5) If any question arises as to the right of any person to be included in the second part of the said register such question shall be decided by the Registrar of the Supreme Court, subject to an appeal within seven days to the Governor in Council whose decision thereupon shall be final; Provided that it shall be lawful for the Governor-in Council to vary such decision at any time.