Hong Kong Ordinances

HIGH COURT ORDINANCE - SECT 6B

Appointment of judges and recorders may be retrospective

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 25 of 1998 s. 2

(1) Subject to subsection (2), any appointment made under section  6 (1) or
6A(1) may be given effect from a date anterior to that of the Letters Patent
by which it is made.

(2) Nothing in subsection (1) shall be deemed to authorize the discharge of
any judicial functions by any person so appointed before the date of the
Letters Patent or before the requirements of section 17 of the
Oaths and Declarations Ordinance ( Cap 11) have been fulfilled. (Added 80 of
1994 s. 5)