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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 280.—The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 9th August, 1934:-

Short title.

New

section 2

added to

Ordinance

No. 5 of

1888.

Rules for

A BILL

INTITULED

[No. 38-5.7.34.-9.]

An Ordinance to amend the Coroner's Abolition Ordinance,

1888.

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 :-

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

procedure

at inquiries

and post

mortem ex. aminations.

(cf. 11 &

and post mortem examinations.

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.

Substitutiion for Ordin-

ance No. 5 of 1888, s. 8.

Executions

and deaths in prison.

(cf. 31 & 32 Vict. c. 24, s. 5.) Ordinance No. 5 of 1912.

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.

5. Section 8 of the Coroner's Abolition Ordinance, 1888, is repealed, and the following section is substituted therefor :-

8.(1) Whenever judgment of death is executed on any offender, the magistrate shall, within twenty four hours after the execution (or forty eight hours if a public or general holiday intervenes in respect of which the magistrates are not exempted from the operation of the Holidays Ordinance, 1912), with a jury of three persons as hereinafter provided, inquire into and ascertain the identity of the body and the cause of death, and whether judgment of death was duly executed on the offender.