POLICE SUPERVISION ORDINANCE, 1923

POLICE SUPERVISION ORDINANCE, 1923

No. 5 of 1923.

An Ordinance to provide for police supervision of certain
persons.

[1st June,. 1923.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Police Supervision
Ordinance, 1923.

2. In this Ordinance, ' crime '. means any felony, or any
offence punishable as a misdemeanor under the Coinage* Offences
Ordinance, 1865, or any offence under section 45 of the Larceny
Ordinance, 1935, or the offence of obtaining goods or money
by false pretences, or the offence of conspiracy to defraud.

3.-(1) Where any person is convicted summarily of a
crime and a previous conviction of'a crime is proved against
him, it shall be lawful for the magistrate to make, in addition
to any other penalty that he may inflict for the second of such
crimes, an order in Form No. 1 in the Schedule., that such
person shall be, subject. to police supervision for a period nolt
exceeding two years.

As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp.' Sched.





(2) Whenever any such person is not imprisoned on
conviction of the second of such crimes, the. date of the com-
mencement of the period of police supervision ordered shall be
the date of such conviction, and shall be indorsed on the said
order by the.magistrate.

(3) Whenever any such person is imprisoned on conviction
of the second of such crimes, the date of the commencement of
the period of police supervision ordered shall be the date of the
termination of his.imprisonment, and shall be indorsed on the
said order by the Superintendent of Prisons.

(4) If any person against whom a police supervision order
has been made under sub-section (1) is ordered by the Governor
in Council to be deported'under the provisions of any Ordinance
relating to deportation, such police supervision order shall be
deemed to be of no effect as from the date on which such
deportation order takes effect.

4. Every person who is ordered to be subject to police
supervision under this Ordinance shall be served by a police
officer with a copy of such order together with an identification
book bearing the photograph and thumb prints of such person,
as soon as conveniently may be after the issue of such order;
and an indorsement in Form No. 2 in the Schedule on any such
original order, purporting to be signed by a police interpreter
or by a police officer, shall- until the contrary is proved be
deemed sufficimt evidence that a copy of the said order was
duly served on and explained to the person named in such order
as, stated in such indorsement.

5.-(1) Every person against whom a police supervision
order has been made tinder this Ordinance shall, within forty-
eight hours of being served with a copy of such order, notify
the place of his residence to an inspector or sergeant on duty in
the charge room at the Central Police Station, who shall then
enter. in the identification book of such person the name of the
police station at which such person shall report himself.

(2) Every such person shall further, whenever lie changes
his place of residence. during the currency of the period of such
order, notify such change within forty-eight hours thereof at
the police station entered in his identification book and the





officer in charge of such police station shall enter in the said
identification book the name of the police.station nearest to such
new residence, and such person shall then report himself at the
police station specified in the said: entry.

(3) Every such person shall, on the occasion of'every such
notification or report, produce his identification book.

6.-(1) Subject to any special order that may be.made by
the Commissioner of Police dispensing in any case with full
compliance with the provisions of this section, every male person
against whom a police supervision order has been made under
this Ordinance shall, in addition to the notification of residence
required from him by section 5, report himself personally once
in each month at such police station as may from time to time
be entered in his identification book and shall on every such
occasion obtain from the officer in charge of such police station
an entry in his identification book that such. report has been
made.

(2) In the event. of any person against whom a police
supervision order ' has been made being permitted by the
Commissioner of Police under the provisions.of sub-section (1)
to leave the Colony for any period, such permission together
with the period for which it is given shall be entered in the
identification book of such person : and every such person shall,
failing any reasonable excuse, return to the Colony on or befbre
the expiration of such period, and shall, within forty-eight hours
of his return, report himself at such police station as may,from
time to time be entered in his identification book, and shall
obtain from the officer in charge of such police station an entry
in his identification book that such report has been made.

7. If any person against whom a police supervision order
has been made at any time undergoes a term of imprisonment
during the currency of the period of such order, the said order
shall be deemed to be suspended while such person is undergoing
such, imprisonment and shall be deemed to be in force again on
the termination of such term of imprisonment, but no such term
of imprisonment shall be reckoned as forming part of the period
of police supervision ordered.

As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.





8. In any proceedings under this ' Ordinance, it shall, until
the contrary is proved, be presumed that the finger prints on
any police supervision order are those. of the person against
whom the order was made.

9. Every person who commits an offence against this
Ordinance shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not
exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars or to imprisonment not
exceeding six 'months.

SCHEDULE.

FORM No 1. [s. 3.]

Police supervision order.

POLICE SUPERVISION ORDINANCE, 1923.
Hong Kong.

In the police court at

Before J. P., Esq., a magistrate of the said Colony sitting at the
police court.

The day of 19

C.D., (hereinafter called the.defendant) was this day convicted.by
me of the crime of and a previous conviction
of the crime.of was proved against him.

It is hereby adjudged and ordered under section 3 of the Police
Supervision Ordinance, 1923, that the defendant shall, in addition to
the penalty of this.day inflicted by me
upon him for the said crime of
be subject to police supervision for a period
of
[L.S.] (Signed)

.................................
Magistrate.

The above period of police Supervision commences froin the
day of

............................................................
Magistrate or Superintendent of Prisons.
Form No. 2. [s. 4.]

Indorsement as to service and explanation of order.

POLICE SUPERVISION ORDINANCE, 1923.

the undersigned, hereby certify that on the day of
19 ' at a.m. [or p.m.] I served a copy
of the within order on the said and
that I explained the within order to the said in.the
language and that I was satisfied that he understood it.

Dated the day of 19


Police Interpreter [or as the case may be].
[Originally No. 5 of 1923. No. 18 of 1929. No. 25 of 1937. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.] Short title. Interpretation. 34 & 35 Vict. C. 112, s. 20. Ordinances Nos. 7 of 1865, and 32 of 1935. Police supervision by order of magistrate. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 112, s. 8. Schedule. Form No. 1. Ordinances Nos. 39 of 1935 and 16 of 1936. Service and explanation of police supervision order. Schedule. Form No. 2. Notification of place of residence by person subject to police superivsion. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 112, s. 8 Monthly report by persons subject to police supervision. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 112, s. 8. Suspension of police superivsion order during imprisonment. Finger prints on police supervision order. Penalty.

[Originally No. 5 of 1923. No. 18 of 1929. No. 25 of 1937. Law Rev. Ord., 1939.] Short title. Interpretation. 34 & 35 Vict. C. 112, s. 20. Ordinances Nos. 7 of 1865, and 32 of 1935. Police supervision by order of magistrate. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 112, s. 8. Schedule. Form No. 1. Ordinances Nos. 39 of 1935 and 16 of 1936. Service and explanation of police supervision order. Schedule. Form No. 2. Notification of place of residence by person subject to police superivsion. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 112, s. 8 Monthly report by persons subject to police supervision. 34 & 35 Vict. c. 112, s. 8. Suspension of police superivsion order during imprisonment. Finger prints on police supervision order. Penalty.

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