Special duty and expenses thereof.
Ordinance No. 6 of 1875.
Construction
of Ordin- ance, etc., where expression "Captain
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any such officer, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
29.-(1) On the application of any person the Inspector General may, if he thinks fit, detail any officer or officers of police to do special police duty in, upon or about any premises or business or vessel specified by the applicant.
(2) The applicant shall pay to the Inspector General for the services of any officer or officers so detailed such fees as the Inspector General may think fit.
(3) All fees so received by the Inspector General shall be paid by him into the Treasury forthwith and be accounted for monthly; and every sum of money due for such services shall be deemed a debt due to the Crown and shall be recoverable by the Treasurer, in like manner as other Crown debts in respect of fees and otherwise, under the Crown Remedies Ordinance, 1875.
30. Wherever in any Ordinance, Order of the Governor in Council, Order of the Governor, rule, regulation, minute, by-law, deed, contract, official letter or other document the expression "Captain Superintendent of Police" occurs, and, in order to give effect thereto, it is necessary to substitute the intendent of expression "Inspector General of Police", such Ordinance or
other document shall be read and construed accordingly.
Super-
Police"
occurs.
Repeal of Ordinances No. 11 of
31. The Police Force Ordinance, 1900, the Police Force Amendment Ordinance, 1929, the Police Force Amendment Ordinance, 1930, the Police Force Amendment Ordinance, 1931, and the Police Force Amendment Ordinance, 1932, are 1930, No. 23 repealed.
1900. No. 18
of 1929,
No. 20 of
of 1931 and
No. 2 of 1932.
Commence- ment.
32. This Ordinance shall come into force on the 1st day of January, 1933.
Objects and Reasons.
This Ordinance consolidates and to some extent amends the law for the establishment and regulation of the Hong Kong Police Force. A Table of Correspondence is attached which indicates the source of each section and the nature of the various amendments.
2. Section 7 dealing with compulsory retirement for inefficiency or age is substituted for Section 14 of the principal Ordinance which dealt with compulsory resignation for ill health.
3. Section 16, as substituted by No. 18 of 1929, has been omitted, and a general power in the Inspector General to make regulations governing leave and passages for subordinate members of the force and members of the civilian staff has been added to (new) Section 12.
4. By Section 28 the new offence of wilfully giving false information to the police, with intent to defeat or delay the ends of justice, has been created. The case of Bastable v. Little (1906, 1 K.B., 59) goes to show that wilful misleading may amount to obstruction of a police officer (s. 34 of the Offences against the Person Ordinance, 1865), but it seems better to have the offence clearly defined.
September, 1932.
C. G. ALABASTER;
Attorney General.