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Ord. No. 7/87

PROBATION OF OFFENDERS (AMENDMENT)

HONG KONG

No. 7 of 1987

L.S.

I assent.

David AKERS-JONES, Acting Governor.

22 January 1987

An Ordinance to amend the Probation of Offenders Ordinance.

[23 January 1987]

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

Short title.

1.

Amendment of section 2. (Cap. 298.)

Amendment of

section 12.

Addition

of new section 12A.

This Ordinance may be cited as the Probation of Offenders (Amendment) Ordinance 1987.

2. Section 2 of the principal Ordinance is amended by—

(a) being renumbered as subsection (1) thereof; and

(b) inserting after subsection (1) the following—

"(2) For the purposes of this Ordinance, except section 3(7), where a probation order or an order for conditional discharge has been made on appeal, the order shall be deemed to have been made by the court from which the appeal was brought.".

3. Section 12 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting paragraph (e).

4. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding after section 12 the following-

"Forms.

12A. The Director of Social Welfare may specify the form of records to be kept under this Ordinance.".

PROBATION OF OFFENDERS (AMENDMENT)

87.

Ord. No. 7/87

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Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 21st day of January

LAW Kam-sang,

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.

LAW Kam-sang.

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

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