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Objects and Reasons.
Section 2 of this Ordinance substitutes for section 29 of the principal Ordinance a section in conformity with the resolution passed by the Legislative Council on the 7th May. Section 3 raises the maximum penalty of one hundred dollars, imposed for offences under paragraphs (1), (2), (3), (4), (5) and (7) of section 43 of the principal Ordinance, to five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months. The penalties hitherto are consi- dered inadequate for the offences eunmerated. The new penalties are in accord with those provided for similar offences under other Ordinances (e.f. sections 47, 48, 58, and 59 of Ordinance No 10 of 1916). Section 4 makes a consequential amendment in Form 1 in the Schedule,
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
June, 1931.
C.S.O. 3096/25.
A BILL
INTITULED
[No. 13:-11.6.31.—1.]
An Ordinance to amend the Summary Offences
Ordinance, 1845.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council there- of, as follows :-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Summary Short title. Offences Amendment Ordinance, 1931.
No. 1 of
2. Section 10 of the Summary Offences Ordinance, Amendment 1845, as amended by section 3 of the Summary Offences of Ordinance Amendment Ordinance, 1924, is amended by the dele- 1845, s. 10 tion of the words " five dollars" and by the sub- as amended stitution therefor of the words "
twenty five dollars".
by Ordinance No. 10 of 1924, s. 3
Objects and Reasons,
The fine of five dollars for mendicancy in public highways or streets has been found inadequate.
May, 1931.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.