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An Ordinance to provide for the adjournment of judicial proceedings during a gale warning and for matters incidental thereto or connected herewith. [4th July, 1969.] Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Judicial Proceedings (Adjournment During Gale Warnings) Ordinance 1969.

2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires—

“adjourned hearing” means the resumed hearing of any judicial proceedings adjourned by or under this Ordinance;

“Director” means the Director of the Royal Observatory in the Colony;

“gale warning” means a warning of the occurrence of a tropical cyclone in, or in the vicinity of, the Colony by the display of any of the local visual storm warning signals referred to in section 5;

“judicial proceedings” means any proceedings before a court, tribunal, commission or other person having by law power to receive evidence on oath;

“period of adjournment” means a period during which any judicial proceedings are adjourned by section 3 or 6;

“tropical cyclone" means a tropical depression, a tropical storm, a severe tropical storm and a typhoon.

3. (1) All judicial proceedings, part-heard or otherwise, which are set down for hearing or are being conducted at a time which falls within the duration of a gale warning shall stand and remain adjourned until resumed in accordance with section 4.