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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST APRIL, 1876.

HONGKONG.

ANNO TRICESIMO NONO

VICTORIA REGINE.

SIR ARTHUR EDWARD KENNEDY, K.C.M.G., C.B., Governor and Commander-in-Chief.

No. 2 of 1876.

An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, for divesting the Registrar General of his Judicial Functions.

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[27th March, 1876.]

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice

of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

Title.

I. So much of section XXVIII of Ordinance No. 8 of 1858 as Repealing part relates to the judicial powers of the Registrar General, is of sec. 28 of hereby repealed, that is to say, the words "before the Registrar Ord. No. 8 of General if a Justice of the Peace, or (if the said person shall so demand)".

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II. The following sections and parts of sections of "The Con- Repealing and tagious Diseases Ordinance, 1867," are hereby repealed:—

Sections V and VI,-The whole.

Section LXX,-From the word "Governor” in the third line

of the section to the end of the section. Sections XII, XIII, XIV, XXVI, XXVII, LHI, LVII, LXII, LXXI, and section XX in the third line from the end, The words "The Registrar General.” Wherever the words "The Registrar General" are repealed as aforesaid, the section shall be amended by inserting the words "a Magistrate," and shall be read as if those words had been inserted in the section originally.

amending parts of Ord. No. 10 of 1867.

III. Upon the hearing by a Magistrate of any matter arising Courts may sit under this Ordinance, or "The Contagious Diseases Ordinance, in private. 1867," or upon the hearing of an appeal from the determination of

the Magistrate in any such matter, the Magistrate or the Court (as the case may be) may hear the matter in private, unless the person accused or affected desire publicity, and, in addition to all other powers, may order that all persons not directly interested in the matter be kept excluded from the place of hearing.

IV. No proceedings under this Ordinance, or under "The Con- No proceedings tagious Diseases Ordinance, 1867," shall be commenced before a to be taken Magistrate, except at the instance, or with the sanction, of the except with Attorney General or of the Registrar General.

sanction of Attorney General or Registrar General.

V. The three preceding sections of this Ordinance shall be Sections II to read with "The Contagious Diseases Ordinance, 1867," and shall IV incorpo- be taken to be incorporated therewith; and upon the issue of any rated with No. new edition of the Ordinances, the provisions of the said three 10 of 1867. sections may be inserted in the said Ordinance; sections III and IV hereof may be printed next after the section now numbered LXXI of the said Ordinance, and the other sections thereof may be re-numbered.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 27th day of March, 1876.

H. ERNEST WODEHOUSE,

Clerk of Councils.

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GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION.

The following Bill, which was read a first time at a Meeting of the Legislative Council, this 27th day of March, 1876, is published for general information.

By Command,

Council Chamber, Hongkong, 27th March, 1876.

H. ERNEST WODEHOUSE,

Clerk of Councils.