GAOL AMENDMENT ORDINANCE

GAOL AMENDMENT ORDINANCE

Goal Amendment.

No. 2 of 1878

An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 4 of 1863

[15th October, 1878.]


WHEREAS doubts have aris e-n as to whether under seetions 11 and 12 of
Ordinance
No. 4 of 1863, punishments directed to be inflicted for breach
of-regulation sor.
of prison discipline by the Superintendent of the Gaol or the
Superintendent in
conjunction with a Justice of the Peace has the case may be) can lawfully
be carried
out after the expiration of the term of imprisonment for which the
offender was originallyy
sentenced, and it is desirable to remove such doubts : Be it enacted by
the Governor
of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as
follows:-
ORDINANCE No. 2 of 1878.

Gaol Amendment.

1. All punishments imposed under the authority of sections 11 and 12 of
Ordinance
No. 4 of 1863, shall be valid and effectual to all intents and purposes,
notwithstanding
the expiration of the period for which the offender was originally
sentenced to
imprisonment by lawful authority, and the Superintendent of any Gaol may
lawfully
detain any prisoner after the expiration of his original sentence and
deal with him, in
.carrying out the punishment imposed on such offender under the authority
of sections
11. and 12 of Ordinance No. 4 of 1863, in all respects, as if his
original sentence had
not expired.
[Repealed by Ordinance No. 18 of 1885, arid see Ordinance No. 7 of 1880,
which was disallowed.]
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