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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 24, 1934.

HONG KONG.

No. 22 OF 1934.

I assent.

W. PEEL,

L.S.

Governor.

24th August, 1934.

An Ordinance to amend the Coroner's Abolition Ordinance,

1888.

[24th August, 1934.]

Short title.

New

section 2 added to Ordinance

No. 5 of 1888.

Rules for

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 Coroner's Abolition Amendment Ordinance, 1934.

2. The Coroner's Abolition Ordinance, 1888, is amended by the addition of the following section after section 1 thereof :--

2. The Governor in Council may make rules for regulating practice and the practice and procedure at or in connection with inquiries

and post mortem examinations.

procedure

at inquiries

and post

mortem ex- aminations.

(cf. 11 &

12 Geo, 5

c. 30, s. 26).

Amendment of Ordin-

ance No. 5 of 1888, s. 4.

Amendment of Ordin- ance No. 5 of 1888,

s. 7.

3. Section 4 of the Coroner's Abolition Ordinance, 1888, is amended by the substitution of the word "any" for the word "either" in the second line thereof.

4. Section 7 of the Coroner's Abolition Ordinance, 1888, is amended:

(a) by the insertion of the words and figures "Subject to the provisions of sections 16 and 18, and to any rules under section 2", at the beginning of sub-section (1) thereof, and

(b) by the deletion of the words "and make such order with regard thereto as he may consider necessary" in the last two lines of sub-section (1) thereof.