THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND NOVEMBER, 1890. 1159
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.--No. 489.
Information has been received from the Military Authorities that Artillery Practice will take place on Friday next, the 28th instant, between the hours of 2 P.M. and 6 P.M. as follows, viz.:-
From Belcher in a North-Westerly direction.
From Stone Cutter West in a South-Westerly direction, from Stone Cutter Central and Stone
Cutter West in a Westerly direction.
All Ships, Junks and other Vessels are cautioned to keep clear of the range.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd November, 1890.
W. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial Secretary.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 490.
The following Act is published for general information.
By Command,
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 22nd November, 1890.
Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act, 1890.
[53 & 54 Vict. CH. 27.]
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
W. M. DEANE, Acting Colonial Secretary.
A.D. 1890.
Sections.
1.
Short title.
2.
Colonial Courts of Admiralty.
3. Power of Colonial legislature as to Admiralty jurisdiction.
Reservation of Colonial law for Her Majesty's assent.
Local Admiralty appeal.
4.
6.
Admiralty appeal to the Queen in Council.
7.
Rules of court.
8.
Droits of Admiralty and of the Crown.
10.
Power to appoint a vice-admiral.
9. Power to establish Vice-Admiralty Court.
11. Exception of Channel Islands and other possessions.
12. Application of Act to courts under Foreigu Jurisdiction Acts.
13.
Rules for procedure in slave trade matters.
14. Orders in Council.
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15. Interpretation.
16.
Commencement of Act.
17. Abolition of Vice-Admiralty Courts.
18. Repeal.
SCHEDULES.
CHAPTER 27.
An Act to amend the Law respecting the exercise of Admiralty Jurisdiction in Her Majesty's Dominions and elsewhere out of the United Kingdom.
[25th July 1890.]
BE
E it enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Short title.
of Admiralty.
1. This Act may be cited as the Colonial Courts of Admiralty Act, 1890. 2. (1.) Every court of law in a British possession, which is for the time being Colonial Courts declared in pursuance of this Act to be a court of Admiralty, or which, if no such declaration is in force in the possession, has therein original unlimited civil jurisdiction, shall be a court of Admiralty, with the jurisdiction in this Act mentioned, and may for the purpose of that jurisdiction exercise all the powers which it possesses for the purpose of its other civil jurisdiction, and such court in reference to the jurisdiction conferred by this Act is in this Act referred to as a Colonial Court of Admiralty. Where in a British possession the Governor is the sole judicial authority, the expression "court of law" for the purposes of this section includes such Governor.
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