192558-1932-Supplementary-Draft-Bill--Crown-Solicitors-Amendment — Page 1

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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

Draft Bill.

No. S. 219.-The following bill is published for general information :---

(C.S.O. 2 in 4307/1910).

A BILL

[No. 31 -16.6.32.— 1.]

Short title.

Substitution

for Ordin-

ance No. 35

of 1912,

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s. 3 (2).

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend further the Crown Solicitors Ordin-

ance, 1912.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Crown Solicitors Amendment Ordinance, 1932.

2. Sub-section (2) of section 3 of the Crown Solicitors Ordinance, 1912, as enacted by section 3 of Ordinance No. 9 of 1924, is repealed and the following sub-section is substituted :-

(2) Any person duly appointed and acting as Crown Solicitor, and any person duly appointed and acting as Assistant Crown Solicitor who is qualified for appointment as Crown Solicitor, shall be entitled to appear to prosecute persons at the Criminal Sessions and also to appear before the Full Court on any appeal or question reserved arising out of any such prosecution.

Objects and Reasons.

1. This Ordinance amends section 3 (2) of Ordinance No. 35 of 1912, as enacted by Ordinance No. 9 of 1924, by the substitution of the words "shall be entitled to appear to prosecute persons at the Criminal Sessions and also to appear before the Full Court on any appeal or question reserved arising out of any such prosecution" for the words "shall be entitled to appear on behalf of the Attorney General and prosecute persons at the Criminal Sessions".

2. The amendment will enable the Crown Solicitor and his qualified assistants to appear with, as well as on behalf of, the Attorney General; and it will also enable them to have audience before the Full Court on Criminal appeals and cases reserved.

June, 1932.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

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