POLICE SUPERVISION ORDINANCE

POLICE SUPERVISION ORDINANCE

CHAPTER 224.

POLICE SUPERVISION.

To provide for police supervision of certain persons.

[1st June, 1923.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Police Super--
vision Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance, 'crime' means any felony, or
any, offence punishable as a misdemeanor under the Coinage
Offences Ordinance, or any offence under section 45 of the
Larceny Ordinance, 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 i in the Schedule, that such
person shall be subject to police supervision for a period not
exceeding two years.

(2) Whenever any such person is not imprisoned on
conviction of the second of such crimes, the date of the corn-
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) Wherever any such person is imprisoned on convic-
tion of the second of such crimes, the date of the commence-
merit 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 Commissioner of Prisons.

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





4. Any 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 identifica-
tion 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 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 con-
trary is proved be deemed sufficient 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) Any person against whom a police supervision
order has been made under this Ordinance shall, within forty-
eight hours of being served with a copy 6f 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) Any such person shall further, whenever he changes
his place of residence. dbring 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) Any 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 notifica~
tion 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 subsection
(i) 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 before 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 he 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 im-
prisonment, but no such term of imprisonment shall be
reckoned as forming part of the period of police supervision
ordered.

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. Any person who commits an offence against this
Ordinance shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine
of one thousand dollars or to imprisonment for six months.

SCHEDULE.

FORM 1
Police supervision order.
POLICE SUPERVISION ORDINANCE.
Hong Kong.
In the magistrate's court at





Before J. P., Esq., a magistrate of the said Colony sitting at the
said 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, (Chapter 224 of the Revised Edition) 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 from the
day of ' 19

...........................
Magistrate or Commissioner of Prisons.

FORm 2. [s. 4.1]
Indorsement as to service and explanation of order.

POLICE SUPERVISION ORDINANCE.

I, 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


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Police Interpreter. [or as the case may be]. Originally 5 of 1923. Fraser 5 of 1923. 22 of 1950. Short title. Interpretation. 34 & 35 Vict. C. 112, s. 20. (Cap. 204.) (Cap. 210.) Police supervision by order of magistrate. [cf. 34 & 35 Vict. C. 112,s . 8.] Schedule Form 1. Service and explanation of police supervision order. Schedule. Form 2. Notification of place of residence by person subject to police supervision. 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 supervision order during imprisonment. Finger-prints on police supervision order. Penalty. 22 of 1950, Schedule. [sch. cont.]

Originally 5 of 1923. Fraser 5 of 1923. 22 of 1950. Short title. Interpretation. 34 & 35 Vict. C. 112, s. 20. (Cap. 204.) (Cap. 210.) Police supervision by order of magistrate. [cf. 34 & 35 Vict. C. 112,s . 8.] Schedule Form 1. Service and explanation of police supervision order. Schedule. Form 2. Notification of place of residence by person subject to police supervision. 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 supervision order during imprisonment. Finger-prints on police supervision order. Penalty. 22 of 1950, Schedule. [sch. cont.]

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