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CONFIDENTIAL
DRAFT SUBMISSION
To:-
Mr Wilford
Sir Leslie Monson
Mr Logan
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT IN HONG KONG
PROBLEM
Type 1 +
From
A W Gaminara Telephone No. &/Ext.
Department Hong Kong
1. The Governor has recently informed us that on the
advice of his Executive Council he has directed that a
Probation
Bill to amend the provision of offenders Ordinance be
introduced into the Legislative Council.
The purpose
of the Bill is to enable the Court to combine the
making of a Probation Ørder with a sentence of daning
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in the case of persons. ZAN
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the age of 16 years
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2. Under the existing law, male offenders under 16
years of age may already be sentenced both to probation.
and to caning; and offenders both under and over 16
years of age may be sentenced to imprisonment and/or
caning on gonviction for specified offences. But as
the law stands, if the offender is 16 years old or more
a Probation Ørder cannot be combined with any other
form of sentence.
13. The amendment now proposed has been recommended by
the Chief Justice (and is supported by the Director of
Social Welfare) who considers that it should be
possible, particularly in the case of relatively young
offenders with no previous convictions, for caning to be
combined with a probation Ørder. The Bill does not in
any way extend the types of offence for which caning
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