REMISSION OF PENALTIES ORDINANCE

REMISSION OF PENALTIES ORDINANCE

No. 14 of 1860

Remission of Penalties.

An Ordinance far the Remission of Penalties.

[17th August, 1860.]

I-ILI-IEAS penalties which under Penal Statutes or Ordinances are
made payable to parties other than the Crown cannot be remit-

ted by the Governor where no express provision has been made by the
Imperial Statute or Colonial Ordinance for that purpose, and it is ex-
pedient that the law as to the remission of such penalties should be
amended and made uniform : Be it, therefore, enacted and ordained by
His Excellency the Governor of Honnkonj, with the advice of the Legis-
lative Council thereof, as follows:-

Power rP 1. It shall be lawful for the Governor to remit, in whole or in
part,
,Governor to
YwDlit penal- any sum of money which under any Act of the Imperial
Le~;islazture or
ties other
tlta,r those any Ordinance now in force or hereafter to be passed in.the
Colony of

,(111C t0 Crown.

IIonglconl; may be imposed as a penalty or forfeiture on a convicted
offender, although such money may be in whole or in part payable to
some party other than the Crown, and to order the discharge of any

person who may be imprisoned for non-payment of any sum of money

so imposed.
480

Preamble.
[22 Vict. Cap 32.]
Power to Governor ot remit penalties other than those due to Crown.

480

Preamble.
[22 Vict. Cap 32.]
Power to Governor ot remit penalties other than those due to Crown.

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