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C.S.O. 3654/29.

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[No 12-13.6.29.--1.]

A BILL

Short title.

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 6 of 1887, s. 4.

Repeal of Ordinance No. 6 of 1887, s. 7, and substitu- tion of new section.

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 Amend- ment Ordinance, 1929.

2. Section 4 of the Jury Ordinance, 1887. is amended as follows:-

(a) by the addition of the words "or of the Hong Kong Police Reserve" after the words "Volunteer Defence Corps" in paragraph (2):

(b) by the substitution of the words "and ministers of any other Christian Congre- gation or of any Jewish Congregation." for the words ministers of any Congre- gation of Protestant dissenters OF of Jews" in paragraph (8).

3. Section 7 of the Jury Ordinance, 1887, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-

Formation

of lists of common and

7.—(1) The Registrar shall, on or before- the 1st day of February in each year, or special jurors. on or before such other day as may be ordered by the Governor in any particular year, make two alphabetical lists of persons liable to serve as jurors, with occupations and addresses, one being a list of special jurors and the other being a list of common jurors, and shall cause a copy of each list to be posted for fourteen days at one of the entrances to the Courts of Justice.

(2) Any person may within the said four- teen days apply by notice in writing to the Registrar requiring that his name or the name of some other person may be added to or struck off from either of the said lists, upon cause duly assigned in such notice, and the Registrar shall in his dis- cretion decide upon such application, and shall, if necessary, alter the list or lists accordingly.

(3) The number of names which the Registrar shall include in the list of special jurors shall not exceed sixty, or such other maximum as may be ordered for the time- being by the Governor in Council.

(4) So soon as possible after the expira- tion of the said period of fourteen days the Registrar shall forward to the Clerk of Councils the two lists and such notices as shall have been served on him under

the provisions of sub-section (2).

(5) The said lists and notices shall thereupon be considered by the Governor