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Published by Authority.

VICTORIA, SATURDAY, 13TH JANUARY, 1883. X VOL. XXIX.

日三十月正年三十八百八千— 簿九十二第

No. 2.

號二第

日五初月二十年午壬

GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.-No. 7.

LEGISLATION.

The following Ordinances have passed the Legislative Council, and received the assent of the

Officer Administering the Government.

Council Chamber, Hongkong, 10th January, 1883.

[L.S.]

W. H. MARSH,

The Officer Administering the Government.

No. 22 or 1882.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend the Supreme Court Ordi- nance, 1873.

[19th December, 1882.]

WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the Supreme

Court Ordinance, 1873, and to make further pro- vision for the execution of the process of the Supreme Court: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. Section 15 of the Supreme Court Ordinance, 1873, is hereby amended by substituting the words "2 Deputy Registrars" in place of the words "a Deputy Registrar" and the words "2 clerks of the Court" instead of the words "a clerk of the Court."

2. The Governor may from time to time appoint one or more Bailiffs of the Supreme Court, and may also from time to time approve of the appointment by any such Bailiff of a Deputy Bailiff. Each Bailiff may, however, act as the Deputy of another and execute any process of the Court, although it may have been directed personally to some other Bailiff.

3. The Registrar shall direct the process of the Court to be executed by such of the Bailiffs of the Court as he may from time to time think fit.

4. In case process may be awarded by the Court against any officer of the Court, such process may be issued directed or executed by any other officer of the Court as the Court or a Judge may direct.

5. Each Bailiff shall serve and execute all process of the Supreme Court under the directions of the Registrar, and make a return of the same together with the manner of the execution thereof to the Court, and shall arrest and convey to prison all such persons as shall be committed to his custody by order of the Court.

ARATHOON SEth,

Clerk of Councils.

Preamble.

Sec. 15 of Ord. 12 of 1873 amended.

Appointment

of Bailifts and Deputy Bailiffs.

Registrar may direct execu- tion of process.

Process against an officer of the Court.

Bailiff to exe- cute process.