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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 17, 1911.
and
(e) punishing persons guilty of contempt: (d) ordering inspection of any promises;
(e) entering upon and viewing of any per- mises.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 16th day of March, 1911.
R. H. CROFTON,
Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 17th
day of March, 1911.
C. CLEMENTI,
Colonial Secretary.
Short title.
Amendment
HONGKONG.
No. 7 of 1911.
An Ordinance to introduce into the Criminal Law Ordinances of 1865 certain provisions of the Criminal Law Amendment Acts of the United Kingdom of 1861, and for other purposes.
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F. D. LUGARÐ, Governor,
[17th March, 1911.]
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as The Criminal Law Amendment Ordinance, 1911.
2. The following provisions are added to the Offences of Ordinance against the Person Ordinauce, 1865, and shall be num- No. 2 of 1865. bered sub-sections (1), (2), (3) and (4) respectively of a new
section numbered 30A :-
Placing
wood etc. on a railway with intent
to endanger prissengers.
Casting stone ute. upon a rail- way carriage with intent.
to endanger the safety of any person therein.
*30A.—(1.) Every person who unlawfully and mali- ciously puts or throws upou or across any ruil- way any wood, stone, or other matter or thing, or unlawfully and maliciously takes up, re- moves, or displaces any rail, sleeper, or other matter or thing belonging to any railway, or unlawfully and maliciously turns, moves, or diverts any points or other machinery belonging to any railway, or unlawfully and maliciously makes or shows, hides or removes, any signal or light upon or near to any railway, or unlaw- fully and maliciously does or causes to be done any other matter or thing, with intent, in any of the euses aforesaid, to endanger the safety of any person travelling or being upon such railway, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment with or without hard la- bour for any term not exceeding fourteen years, and, if a male under the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping.
(2.) Every person who unlawfully and maliciously throws, or causes to fall or strike, at, against. into, or upou any engine, tender, carriage, or truck used upon any railway, any wood, stone, or other matter or thing, with intent to injure or endanger the safety of any person being in or upon such engine, tender, carriage, or truck, or in or upon any other engine, tender, earri- age, or truck of any train of which such first- mentioned engine, tender, carriage, or truck shall form part, shall be guilty of felony and shall be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding fourteen
years.
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