GAOL AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1880

GAOL AMENDMENT ORDINANCE, 1880

Gaol Amendment.

No. 7 of 1880.


An Ordinanee Entitled,-- 'The Prisons Regulations Amendment Ordinance, 1880'

[31st August, 1880.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the
Legislative'
Council thereof, as follows:--
1. Ordinance 2 0£ 1878 is hereby repealed.

2. Section 11 of Ordinance 4 of 1863 is hereby amended, .by omitting the
words
t` or if the prisoner be under conviction of felony to punish by moderate
corporal
punishment not exceeding twelve strokes of a rattan;'. and by adding at
the end o£ the
section the words 'Provided that no imprisonment under this section shall
continue
after the expiration o£ the period for which the offender was originally
sentenced to
imprisonment by lawful authority.'

3, Sectian 12 of the same Ordinance is hereby amended, by inserting after
the X,nending

section 12 of

words 'above offences' the words 'with the exception of idleness or
negligence in Ordinance 4 nf

7sc:~.'

-woi'h'-and by substituting for the wordy 'Such Superintendent in
conjunction with
guy Justice of the Peace' the words 'any Police Magistrate,' and by
adding at the
end-of=tlie-section the words 'Punishments imposed under this section
shall be valid -
far all purposes notwithstanding the expiration of the period for which
the offender
was originally sentences to imprisonment by lawful authority.'

ORDINANCE No.7 of 1880.

Gaol Amendment.

4. Section 13 of the same Ordinance is hereby amended, by
and no such punishment shall be inflicted until after the
expiration of 12 hours after
the prisoner shall have been sentenced thereto under the two sections
next preceding.'
[DisUlowance proclaimed 2nd 8eptember, 1881.
Repealed by Ordinance No. 4 of 1887.]
1567

Ordinance 2 of 1878 repealed.
Amending section 11 of Ordinance 4 of 1863.
Amending section 12 of Ordinance 4 of 1863.
1568

Amending section 13 of Ordinance 4 of 1863.

1567

Ordinance 2 of 1878 repealed.
Amending section 11 of Ordinance 4 of 1863.
Amending section 12 of Ordinance 4 of 1863.
1568

Amending section 13 of Ordinance 4 of 1863.

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