Hong Kong Ordinances

MAGISTRATES ORDINANCE - SECT 24

Description of property of partners in complaint or information

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Amendments retroactively made - see 25 of 1998 s. 2; 29 of 1998 s. 105

(1) In any complaint or information or the proceedings thereon in which it is
necessary to state the ownership of any property belonging to or in the
possession of partners, joint tenants, parceners or tenants in common, it
shall be sufficient to name one of such persons and to state the property to
belong to the person so named and another or others, as the case may be; and
whenever in any complaint or information or the proceedings thereon it is
necessary to mention for any purpose whatsoever any partners, joint tenants,
parceners or tenants in common, it shall be sufficient to describe them in
manner aforesaid.

(2) Whenever in any complaint or information or the proceedings thereon it is
necessary to state the ownership of any public work or building maintained or
repaired at the public expense or any materials or tools provided for the
repair of public highways, roads, buildings, gates, bridges, lamps, boards,
stones, posts, fences or other things erected or provided for such highways,
roads, buildings, gates, bridges, lamps, boards, stones, posts and fences, or
of any reservoirs, conduits, sewers, drains or other public works or property
of whatsoever description, it shall be sufficient to describe such property as
the property of the Government. (Amended 25 of 1998 s. 2; 29 of 1998 s. 105)
[cf. 1848 c. 43 s. 4 U.K.]