TRANSPORTATION AND PENAL SERVITUDE ABOLITION ORDINANCE, 1887
Title
TRANSPORTATION AND PENAL SERVITUDE ABOLITION ORDINANCE, 1887
Description
ORDINANCE No. 3 OF 1887.
Transportation and Penal Servitude Abolition
AN ORDINANCE to abolish Transportation and Penal Servitude
and to substitue other Punishment in lieu thereof.
[13th April,1887.] BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong,with the advice of the
Lagislative Council thereof,as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Transportation and Penal
Servitude Abolition Ordinance,1887.
2. From and after the commencement of this Ordinance,no person
shall be sentenced to transportation or penal servitude,and any person
who, if this Ordinance had not been passed, might have been sentenced
to tansportation or penal servitude shall, after the commencement of
this Ordinance, be liable to be sentenced to imprisonment with hard
labour for a term of the same duration as the term of transportation or
penal servitude to which such person would have been liable if this
Ordinance had not been passed.
3. All persons at present detained under any sentence of penal
servitude shall, for the remaining period of their sentence, be deemed to
have been sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour, and shall be
classed accordingly,and shall be subject to all laws and rules relating to
the care, custody, management, employment, and discipline of offenders
under sentence of imprisonment with hard labour, in the same manner
as if they had been originally sentenced to imprisonment with hard
labour.
A.D. 1887. Ordinance No. 10 of 1887. Short title.
Abolition of transportation and penal service tude and substitution of imprisonment with hard labour.
Person under penal servi-tude to be deemed to have been sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour.
Transportation and Penal Servitude Abolition
AN ORDINANCE to abolish Transportation and Penal Servitude
and to substitue other Punishment in lieu thereof.
[13th April,1887.] BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong,with the advice of the
Lagislative Council thereof,as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Transportation and Penal
Servitude Abolition Ordinance,1887.
2. From and after the commencement of this Ordinance,no person
shall be sentenced to transportation or penal servitude,and any person
who, if this Ordinance had not been passed, might have been sentenced
to tansportation or penal servitude shall, after the commencement of
this Ordinance, be liable to be sentenced to imprisonment with hard
labour for a term of the same duration as the term of transportation or
penal servitude to which such person would have been liable if this
Ordinance had not been passed.
3. All persons at present detained under any sentence of penal
servitude shall, for the remaining period of their sentence, be deemed to
have been sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour, and shall be
classed accordingly,and shall be subject to all laws and rules relating to
the care, custody, management, employment, and discipline of offenders
under sentence of imprisonment with hard labour, in the same manner
as if they had been originally sentenced to imprisonment with hard
labour.
A.D. 1887. Ordinance No. 10 of 1887. Short title.
Abolition of transportation and penal service tude and substitution of imprisonment with hard labour.
Person under penal servi-tude to be deemed to have been sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour.
Abstract
A.D. 1887. Ordinance No. 10 of 1887. Short title.
Abolition of transportation and penal service tude and substitution of imprisonment with hard labour.
Person under penal servi-tude to be deemed to have been sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour.
Abolition of transportation and penal service tude and substitution of imprisonment with hard labour.
Person under penal servi-tude to be deemed to have been sentenced to imprisonment with hard labour.
Identifier
https://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/items/show/632
Edition
1901
Volume
v1
Cap / Ordinance No.
No. 3 of 1887
Number of Pages
2
Files
Collection
Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online
Citation
“TRANSPORTATION AND PENAL SERVITUDE ABOLITION ORDINANCE, 1887,” Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online, accessed July 13, 2025, https://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/items/show/632.
