D KAN T
A BILL
To
Amend the Criminal Procedure Ordinance.
ANNEX CL
Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice
and consent of the Legislative Council thereof,
Short title
and commence-
ment.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Criminal
Procedure (Amendment) Ordinance, 1973 and shall come into
operation on a date to be appointed by the Governor by notice
in the Gazette.
Addition of heading and sections 109I and 1093. (Cap. 221.)
2.
The principal Ordinance is amended by adding after section 1094 the following heading and sections -
Preventive detention, /Cf. 1948 C.53, 3.21.7
"Preventive Detention.
109I. (1) Where a person who is not less
than 25 years of age
(a) is convicted before a court of an
offence punishable with imprisonment
for a term of 2 years or more;
(b) has been convicted on at least 3
previous occasions since he attained
the age of 17 of offences punishable
with such a sentence;
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(c)
vas on at least 2 of those 3 previous
occasions sentenced to a custodial
sentence; and