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338 ORDINANCES Nos . 6 AND 7 OF 1856 .


Criminal Procedure. Chancery Procedure.


Limitation ofthe 9. No promise or threat shall operate to exclude a defendant's confession from
rule excluding
confessions being received in evidence against such defendant upon his trial for felony or
under indues
ment.
misdemeanor, unless such promise or threat shall have been made or held out to such
defendant by one having some authority over him in connection with or in relation to
the prosecution of such offence.
Extension of the 10. The Act of Parliament passed in the thirteenth and fourteenth years of Her
13 & 14 Vict. c.
21. to this Colony Majesty, chapter twenty-one, for shortening the language used in Acts of Parliament,
and to Ordi
nances of the
Legislative is hereby for all purposes extended to this Colony ; and the rules of construction by the
Council.
said Act provided shall extend and apply to all Acts of Parliament, and Ordinances of
the Legislative Council of this Colony, now in force or hereafter to come in force
within the same.


[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 3 of 1865. ]




No. 7 of 1856 .

Title. An Ordinance to extend to this Colony certain Enactments and

General Orders for reforming Procedure in the High Court
of Chancery and the Offices thereof.

[ 17th March, 1856. ]
Preamble.
HEREAS it is desirable that sundry important reforms in the
WHE
administration of equity proceedings be adopted in this Colony :
Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong,
with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :
Acts of 1. Subject to the provisions hereinafter contained , the several enact
Parliament
and Orders ments ofthe Imperial Parliament specified in schedule A to this Ordinance
in Chancery
extended to annexed, and also the several orders of the High Court of Chancery of
Hongkong.
Great Britain specified in schedule B to this Ordinance also annexed,

shall (to the extent in the said two schedules respectively defined , but
not otherwise ) extend to and come into force and effect within this Colony
from the time of the passing of this present Ordinance . [ So much as
relates to 10 and 11 Vict. c. 96 and to the General Orders of the High Court
of Chancery ofthe 10th June, 1848, repealed by Ordinance No. 7 of 1873. ]
To be 2. This Ordinance and Ordinance No. 5 of 1856 , entitled " An
construed
with Ordinance for the Amendment of Procedure in Civil and Criminal Cases,"
Ordinance
No. 5 of 1856. shall be so read and construed together as shall best conduce to the

particular effect of each ordinance and of the provisions thereby respectively
extended to this Colony.