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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 12, 1909.

DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE.

No. 159.

CIRCULAR.

DOWNING STREET,

29th January, 1909.

SIR,-With reference to my Circular despatch of the 22nd of August last,* I have the honour to transmit, for your information and for publication in the Colony under your Government, as prescribed in Clause 1 of the Order in Council of 1st August, 1908, *five copies of the Rules of Court made by the Lord Chancellor and the Judges of the Supreme Court pursuant to the Mail Ships Acts 1891 and 1902, and entitled the Mail Ships Rules,

1908.

The Officer Administering the Government of

HONGKONG.

I have, &c.,

CREWE.

STATUTORY RULES AND ORDERS, 1908. No. 448. L. 17.

Assignment

of business

POST OFFICE.

Conveyance of Mails and Letters:-Exempted Mail Ships.

THE MAIL SHIPS RULES, 1908. DATED JUNE 3, 1908.

RULES OF COURT made by the Lord Chancellor and the Judges of the Supreme Court pursuant to the Mail Ships Acts, 1891 and 1902, together with the Scale of Fees fixed with the concurrence of the Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury.

The following Rules under the Mail Ships Acts, 1891 and 1902 (in these Rules referred to as the Acts), may be cited as the Mail Ships Rules, 1908.

General.

1. All matters within the jurisdiction of the High Court under the provisions. of the Acts shall be assigned to the Probate Divorce and Admiralty Division, and Divorce and all jurisdiction in relation thereto may be exercised by a Judge at chambers.

to Probate

Admiraliy

Division.

Form of applications.

Hearing of application.

Notices.

2. Every application to the Court under the Acts shall be intituled in the matter of the Acts, and of the Order in Council applying the Acts as regards the postal service in respect of which the application is made, and shall be signed by or on behalf of the owner of the ships or ship in respect of which the application is made (in these Rules referred to as the owner), or by a secretary or assistant secretary of the Board of Trade, as the case may be, and shall be filed in the Admiralty Registry.

3. On the filing of any application under the Acts, the Court shall appoint a day for the hearing thereof, having regard to the notice (if any) required to be given in respect of that application; and after the hearing the Court may make such order thereon as the Court may think just.

4. Where in any proceeding relating to security notice is required by the Acts or these Rules to be given, such notice shall be a notice of three clear days, except where these Rules otherwise provide, but the Court or a Judge may in any case permit such shorter notice as the justice of the case may require.

*Government Notification No. 798 of 1908.