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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 24, 1937.

Schedule,-contd.

SHORT TITLE,

AMENDMENT OR REPEAL.

34. The

Books

Colonial Registra-

tion Ordinance,

1888.

(No. 2 of 1888.), -contd.

35. The

Coroner's Abolition Ordin- ance, 1888. (No. 5 of 1888.)

London, two copies shall be sent to the Librarian at the Colonial Office Library, London, and two copies shall be sent to the Keeper of Printed Books at the British Museum, London."

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(3) Section 11 is amended by the repeal of the words and may, by notification in the Gazette, exclude any class of books from the operation of the whole or any part thereof and the substitution therefor of the words and, by notification in the Gazette, to exclude any class of books from the operation of this Ordinance or any part thereof ".

(1) Section 6 (1) is repealed and the following

sub-section substituted therefor :-

"6.-(1) Whenever a dead body is Preliminary brought to a hospital, the medical officer examination in charge of the hospital, or such other of body. Government medical officer or registered medical practitioner as he may depute, shall make a preliminary external exami- nation of the body and report in writing to the magistrate, who may, if he con- siders it necessary, order an autopsy."

(2) Section 9 (1) is amended by the repeal of the first a "' in the first line thereof and the substitution therefor of the word

the ".

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(8) Section 11 is amended by the repeal of the words which may be administered to two or more jurors at once and the sub- stitution therefor of the words and the oath may be administered to or the de- claration made by two or more jurors at

once

(4) Section 13 (2), as amended by Ordinance No. 22 of 1934, is amended by the repeal of the word or immediately before, and the insertion of the words

or in- fanticide immediately after, the word manslaughter in the fourth line

thereof.

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(5) Section 17 is amended by the repeal of the first a in the second line thereof and the substitution therefor of the word

the ".

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(6) Form No. 2 in the Schedule is repealed and

the following form substituted therefor:-

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FORM No. 2.

[s. 11.]

Oath for juror.

I will diligently inquire and true pre- sentment make of all such matters and things as shall be here given me in charge, on behalf of Our Sovereign Lord the King touching the death of

now lying