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370 ORDINANCES Nos . 4 AND 5 OF 1857 .


Amendment of Ordinances. Salvage-- Prize.


No. 4 of 1857.

An Ordinance for amending the Ordinances therein mentioned.

[ 5th March, 1857. ]

E it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of
BE
Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as
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follows :

Rules and 1. All rules and orders made or to be made by the Supreme Court,
orders under
Ordinances for giving effect to Ordinances No. 5 of 1856, and No. 7 of 1856 , or
Nos. 5 & 7 of
1856 to be either of them, shall be laid before and approved by the Legislative
approved in •
Council. Council , before the same shall be issued ; and all such rules and orders.
when so approved and issued shall be published , and have the same force
within this Colony as if the same had been enacted by way of Ordinance.
Repeal of 2. So much of section 2 of Ordinance No. 14 of 1856 , as contains
parts of
sections 2 a salvo as to the power of the Registrar ; and so much of section 4 of
and 4, of Or
dinance No. the last-mentioned Ordinance, as requires immediate payment to be made
14 of 1856,
and of of costs of interlocutory proceedings , and forbids their being made to
sections 5 , 6,
and 12 of the abide the event ; and also the whole of sections 5 , 6, and 12 of the same
same.
Ordinance, are hereby repealed.
Costs payable 3. In all proceedings where costs would have been recoverable by
by or to the
Crown. or from private parties , they shall be recoverable by or from the Crown.

Declaratory 4. Section 18 of " The Common Law Procedure Act , 1854 , " is
as to 17 and
18 Victoria, hereby declared to be applicable to all trials, criminal and civil, within
c. 125.
this Colony ; but none of the other sections thereof, not expressly
extended by Ordinance or re - enacted here , are in force within the same.




No. 5 of 1857.

An Ordinance for Salvage and Prize in certain cases .

[ 25th March, 1857 .

E it ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the
BR Legislative Council thereof, as follows :

Fxtension ofMer 1. So much of the " Merchant Shipping Act, 1854," as relates to salvage, is here
chant Shipping
Act as to salvage. by extended to this Colony, and to the Courts and Justices thereof, and to all questions
of salvage coming before them, and wheresoever arising.