40962-1915-PROCLAMATION — Page 8

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No. 14.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 1, 1915.

[L.S.]

FRANCIS HENRY MAY,

Governor.

By His Excellency Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY Knight Commander of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Governor and Commander- in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the

same :-

Whereas by section three of the Prize Courts Act 1894 His Majesty in Council is authorised to make rules of court for regulating subject to the provisions of the Naval Prize Act 1864 and the said Act the procedure and practice of prize courts within the meaning of the Naval Prize Act 1864 and the duties and conduct of the officers thereof and of the practitioners therein and for regulating the fees to be taken by the officers of the courts and the costs charges and expenses to be allowed to the practitioners therein:

And whereas by section five of the Naval Prize Act 1864 it is provided that every appeal from a prize court within the meaning of this Act shall be made in such manner and form and subject to such regulations (including regulations as to fees costs charges and expenses) as may for the time being be directed by Order in Council:

And whereas in pursuance of the Prize Courts Act 1894 certain rules were made by an Order in Council dated the 18th day of July 1898:

And whereas by an Order in Council made in pursuance of the Prize Courts Act 1894 and the Naval Prize Act 1864 and dated the 5th day of August 1914 the rules thereinafter set forth were substituted for the rules made by the said Order in Council dated the 18th day of July 1898:

And whereas by Order XLVI of the said rules made by the said Order in Council dated the 5th day of August 1914 it is provided that so far as the said rules apply to any Court in a British Possession outside the United Kingdom they shall not come into opera- tion until they are proclaimed in the Possession by the Governor thereof:

And whereas by two Orders in Council made in pursuance of the said Acts and dated respectively the 30th day of September and the 28th day of November 1914 the said rules so made by the Order in Council of the 5th day of August 1914 were amended as therein specified:

And whereas by an Order in Council made in pursuance of the said Acts and dated the 3rd day of February 1915 the said rules were further amended as therein specified :

And whereas it is expedient that the said further amendment of the said rules should come into operation in this Colony:

Now therefore I Sir FRANCIS HENRY MAY Knight Commander of the Most Distin- guished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George Governor and Commander-in-Chief of the Colony of Hongkong and its Dependencies and Vice-Admiral of the same do hereby proclaim the said amendments of the said rules in this Colony.

Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony at Victoria Hongkong this 1st day of April 1915.

By Command,

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary.

GOD SAVE THE KING.