(C.S.O. 4303/32)..
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[No. 42:--18.10.32.–6.]
A BILL
Short title.
Ordering of certain matters in relation to prisons.
Victoria Gaol, etc., to be prisons.
Commitment
and removal
of prisoners.
INTITULED
An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to
Prisons.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Prisons Ordinance, 1932.
2. The Governor may make orders for any of the following purposes :-
(1) to set apart any place or building or portion of a building for the purpose of a prison;
(2) to discontinue the use of any prison and appropriate the site and buildings thereof to any other lawful purpose;
(3) to appoint fit persons to be respectively super- intendents of prisons, assistant superintendents, chaplains, medical officers and such subordinate officers for the service of prisons as the Governor may think necessary, and to remove such persons from their oflices.
3. The sites and buildings and prisons known as Victoria Gaol, Lai Chi Kok Prison and the Female Prison respectively, and also that part of the Government Civil Hospital known as the Prison Ward, shall be prisons duly set apart under section 2.
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4. (1) A prisoner sentenced to imprisonment or committed to prison on remand pending trial or otherwise 4 & 5 Geo. 5, may be lawfully confined in any prison to which this Ordinance
applies.
c. 58, s. 17.
(2) Prisoners shall be confined in such prisons as the Superintendent of Prisons may direct and may on like direction be removed therefrom during the term of their imprisonment to any other prison.
(3) The Superintendent of Prisons on being satisfied that a prisoner is suffering from a disease and cannot be properly treated in a prison, or that he should undergo and desires to undergo a surgical operation which cannot properly be performed in a prison, may order that the prisoner be taken to the Government Civil Hospital or other suitable place for the purpose of treatment or the operation, and while absent from the prison in pursuance of such order the prisoner shall be deemed to be in legal custody.
(4) When the attendance of any prisoner at any place is required for the purposes of any enactment, the Super- intendent of Prisons shall arrange for his transfer in custody to and from such place, and during any such transfer the prisoner shall be deemed to be in legal custody.
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