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PRIVACY MARKING
In Confidence
1.
(with particuter
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Department
te the course of a meeting last week
I understand that
with
M° Ho Tung oftheday
fast week Mr Royle asked for a note setting_out
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the present position regarding recent legislation
dursting with
enacted in Hong Kong providing for more severe
for
Corporal punishand) punishments dealing with crime, and particularly
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crimes of violence. The position is set out below.
2.
The Corporal Punishment (Amendment) Ordinance 1971.
This Ordinance was enacted in April. Its main effect
was to add two offences (affray and possession of
an offensive weapon in a public place) to the
schedule of offences prescribed under the principal
Ordinance on conviction for which a male person of
16 years or over could be sentenced to caning in lieu
of or in addition to any other punishment. The
matter was the subject of my submissions of 16 March
and 25 March and Ministerial approval was obtained for
the enactment of the Ordinance.
1971.
Under
3. The Probation of Offenders (Amendment) Ordinance
This Ordinance was enacted in May 1971.
the law as it had previously stood, male offenders
under 16 years of age could be sentenced both to
probation and to caning; and offenders both under and
over 16 years of age could be sentenced to imprisonment
and/or caning on conviction for specified offences;
but if the offender were 16 years old or more a
probation order could not be combined with any other
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