ORDINANCES Nos. 13 AND 14 OF 1856.
Admission of Practitioners in Supreme Court.
Fees and Costs.
to the Crown a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, nor less than fifty dollars, to be sued for and recovered by the Attorney General by action at law in the Supreme Court.
[All repealed (except sections 11 and 12) by Ordinance No. 3 of 1871.]
No. 14 of 1856.
An Ordinance for Fees and Costs.
[31st July, 1856.]
859
WHEREAS no provision hath been hitherto made by the Legislature of this Colony for the ascertaining of Court and other fees and costs in Equity proceedings, and some of the said fees, as hitherto levied, are illegal: And whereas the late reformation in procedure at law, and in Equity, and practice in general, maketh further legislation with respect to fees, costs, and taxation desirable:
Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. The three schedules to this Ordinance annexed shall be deemed to be incorporated therewith, and (except where otherwise expressed) shall be interpreted in manner following, that is to say: The first and third schedules respectively, as relating exclusively to proceedings on the Equity side of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, or to business done or to be done in the practice of conveyancing: And the second schedule, as relating to all proceedings whatsoever at Law or in Equity in the said Court, not being proceedings before the summary jurisdiction thereof, nor proceedings by way of appeal in rating cases; and also to business done or to be done in the practice of conveyancing: Yet so as that, where any of the particulars in the said three schedules severally entered shall appear to be thereby respectively extended to other matters or occasions, or limited to some special matters or occasions, the same shall be so interpreted accordingly.
2. From and after the passing of this Ordinance, it shall not be lawful to ask or receive, in respect to any proceedings in equity or conveyancing business, any fees or payments of Court or of office other than according to the rates and conditions in the said [“First" as amended by Ordinance No. 7 of 1857] schedule expressed, save that the Registrar of the said Court is hereby empowered to remit or reduce all or any of such fees or payments, in any case where good and sufficient ground shall have been shewn to his satisfaction for such remission or reduction. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1857.]
Preamble.
The three schedules to be incorporated with the Ordinance and to be interpreted as herein mentioned.
[See Ord. No. 7 of 1862.]
Court fees not to exceed the rates in the first schedule.
[See also Ord. No. 15 of 1856]
ORDINANCES Nos. 13 AND 14 OF 1856.
Admission of Practitioners in Supreme Court.
Fees and Costs.
to the Crown a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, nor less than fifty dollars, to be sued for and recovered by the Attorney General by action at law in the Supreme Court.
[All repealed (except sections 11 and 12) by Ordinance No. 3 of 1871.]
No. 14 of 1856.
An Ordinance for Fees and Costs.
[31st July, 1856.]
859
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HEREAS no provision hath been hitherto made by the Legislature of this Co- lony for the ascertaining of Court and other fees and costs in Equity proceed- ings, and some of the said fees, as hitherto levied, are illegal: And whereas the late reformation in procedure at law, and in Equity, and practice in general, maketh further legislation with respect to fees, costs, and taxation desirable:
Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. The three schedules to this Ordinance annexed shall be deemed to be incorpo- rated therewith, and (except where otherwise expressed) shall be interpreted in manner following, that is to say: The first and third schedules respectively, as relating exclu- sively to proceedings on the Equity side of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, or to bu- siness done or to be done in the practice of conveyancing: And the second schedule, as relating to all proceedings whatsoever at Law or in Equity in the said Court, not being proceedings before the summary jurisdiction thereof, nor proceedings by way of appeal in rating cases;-and also to business done or to be done in the practice of con- veyancing:-Yet so as that, where any of the particulars in the said three schedules severally entered shall appear to be thereby respectively extended to other matters or occasions, or limited to some special matters or occasions, the same shall be so inter- preted accordingly.
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2. From and after the passing of this Ordinance, it shall not be lawful to ask or receive, in respect to any proceedings in equity or conveyancing business, any fees or payments of Court or of office other than according to the rates and conditions in the said [“ First" as amended by Ordinance No. 7 of 1857] schedule expressed, save that the Registrar of the said Court is hereby empowered to remit or reduce all or any of such fees or payments, in any case where good and sufficient ground shall have been shewn to his satisfaction for such remission or reduction. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1857.]"
Prea uble.
The three
schedules to be incorporated with the Ordinance and to be interpreted as herein mentioned.
[See Ord. No. 7 of 1862.]
Court fees not to exceed the rates in the first schedule.
[See also Ord. No. 15 of 18564
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