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ORDINANCES Nos . 13 AND 14 OF 1856. 359


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[ All repealed (except sections 11 and 12) by Ordinance No. 3 of 1871.]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. ]

HEREAS no provision hath been hitherto made by the Legislature of this Co Prea able.
W 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 The three
schedules to be
rated therewith, and (except where otherwise expressed) shall be interpreted in manner incorporated
with the
Ordinance and
following, that is to say: The first and third schedules respectively, as relating exclu to be interpreted
as herein
sively to proceedings on the Equity side of the Supreme Court of Hongkong, or to bu mentioned.
[See Ord. No. 7
siness done or to be done in the practice of conveyancing : And the second schedule, of 1862.]
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 .

2. From and after the passing of this Ordinance, it shall not be lawful to ask or Court fees not
to exceed the
rates in the first
receive, in respect to any proceedings in equity or conveyancing business , any fees or schedule.
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 [See also Ord.
No. 15 of 1856.)
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. ]