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(CS.O. 1/4299/29).

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[No. 10:-16.7.34.-5.]

Short title.

Substitution for proviso at end of Ordinance No. 3 of 1873, s. 6.

Substitution for Ordin- ance No. 3 of 1873, s. 9 (2) as enacted by Ordinance No. 12 of 1933, s. 2.

Ordinance No. 8 of 1933.

Substitution for Ordin- ance No. 3 of 1873, s. 11 as enacted by Ordinance No. 12 of 1933, s. 2.

Chief Justice and Puisne Judges not to hold any other office of profit.

Proviso.

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend further the Supreme Court Ordin-

ance, 1873.

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 Supreme Court Amendment Ordinance, 1934.

2. The proviso added by the Supreme Court Amendment Ordinance, 1929, to section 6 of the Supreme Court Ordin- ance, 1873, is repealed and the following is substituted therefor

Provided that the practice and procedure, howsoever established and regulated, with regard to exchequer and revenue proceedings and the practice with regard to writs of certiorari, habeas corpus and mandamus shall be the same as they were in England on the 31st day of December, 1930.

3. Sub-section (2) of section 9 of the Supreme Court Ordinance, 1873, as enacted by section 2 of the Supreme Court Amendment Ordinance. 1933, is repealed and the following sub-section is substituted therefor

(2) Every Chief Justice and every Puisne Judge shall, save when appointed by the Governor under the provisions of section 10 of this Ordinance or under the provisions of section 2 (4) of the Full Court Ordinance, 1933, be appointed by Letters Patent under the public seal by the Governor, in accordance with such instructions as he may receive through a Secretary of State, and shall hold his office during His Majesty's pleasure, subject to any conditions contained in any regulation made by or under the authority of His Majesty for His Majesty's Colonial Service.

4. Section 11 of the Supreme Court Ordinance, 1873, as enacted by section 2 of the Supreme Court Amendment Ordinance, 1933, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor:

11. No Chief Justice or Puisne Judge shall accept or perform any other office or place of profit or emolument not authorised by law: Provided that this section shall not apply to a Judge temporarily appointed under section 10.

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