Hong Kong Ordinances

DISTRICT COURT ORDINANCE - SECT 10

Jurisdiction in part-heard cases of judges appointed to be High Court Judges or Court of First Instance deputy judges

(Past version on 30/06/1997).

Adaptation amendments retroactively made - see 25 of 1998 s. 2 Where a judge
is appointed-

   (a)  to be a judge of the High Court under section 6(1) of the High 
        Court Ordinance ( Cap 4); or

   (b)  to be a deputy judge of the Court of First Instance under section
        10(1) of the Court of First Instance Ordinance ( Cap 4), he may,
        notwithstanding such appointment, exercise and discharge all such
        jurisdiction, powers, authorities and duties as were prior to such
        appointment vested in him as a judge of the Court, but in relation
        only to any proceedings which were duly commenced before him in his
        capacity as such judge prior to such appointment. (Added 11 of 1970 s.
        3. Amended 92 of 1975 s. 58; 49 of 1983 s. 7; 25 of 1998 s. 2)