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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 121. The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 18th April, 1935 :-
(C.S.O. 1/3654/1935).
A BILL
[No. 9-23.3.35.-1.]
Short title.
Substitution for Ordin- ance No. 6 of 1887,
s. 4 (12).
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend the Jury Ordinance, 1887.
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 Jury Amendment Ordinance, 1935.
2. Paragraph (12) of section 4 of the Jury Ordinance, 1887, is repealed and the following paragraph is substituted therefor *
(12) All officers and non-commissioned officers of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, all commissioned and warrant officers of the IIong Kong Naval Volunteer Force, and also such other members of the said Corps or of the said Force as shall have been exempted from jury service by the Governor in Council.
Objects and Reasons.
1. Paragraph (12) of section 4 of the principal Ordinance exempts from jury service all officers and non-commissioned officers of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, and such other efficient members of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps as may be allowed by the Governor in Council.
2. The paragraph substituted by this amending Ordinance exempts all officers and non-commissioned officers of the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, all commissioned and warrant officers of the Hong Kong Naval Volunteer Force, and also such other members of the said Corps or of the said Force as shall have been exempted from jury service by the Governor in Council.
3. This amendment of the Jury Ordinance implements the amendment of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903 (which will be replaced by section 3 (4) (j) of the Urban Council Ordinance, No. 7 of 1935) effected by section 19 (2) of the Naval Volunteer Ordinance, No. 30 of 1933.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
March, 1935
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