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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 316. The following Bills were read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 9th October, 1913 :-

Short title.

Amendment

of section 5

of Principal

. .Ordinance.

Ordinary and special sessions of the Court.

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the Criminal Procedure

Ordinance, 1899.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Criminal Pro- cedure Amendment Ordinance, 1913, and shall be read and construed as one with the Criminal Procedure Ordinance, 1899, (hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance), and this Ordinance and the said Ordinance may be cited together as the Criminal Procedure Ordinances, 1899-1913.

2. Section 5, sub-section (1), of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed, and the following sub-section substituted therefor :-

“5.-(1.) The ordinary sessions for the despatch of the business of the Court shall commence on the 18th day of every month or, if that day is a dies non, then on the lawful day next follow- ing:

Provided always that the Chief Justice may, at any time, on due notice thereof being given, change the day so appointed :

Provided further that the Chief Justice may, at any time, on due notice thereof being given, order that no sessions shall be held in such month or months as he shall specify in such order."

Objects and Reasons.

The object of this Bill is to enable the Chief Justice upon giving due notice to order that no Criminal Sessions shall be held in those months in which there is a sitting of the newly constituted Full Court of Appeal.

Under the old law two definite months were fixed for the sitting of this Full Court, but it has been ascertained that it may not always be possible for these months to be those in which the sittings should take place.

Under the new Bill greater elasticity is permitted and the months during which the sittings of the Full Court will be held can be arranged as may be found convenient.

JOHN A. BUCKNILL,

Attorney General.

Short title.

Repeal of section 77 and sub- stitution of new section therefor.

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the Magistrates Ordi-

nance, 1890.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Magistrates Amendment Ordinance, 1913, and shall be read and con- strued as one with the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, (here- inafter called the Principal Ordinance), and this Ordinance and the said Ordinance may be cited together as the Magistrates Ordinances, 1890-1913.

2. Section 77 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :--