Short title,
Amends Ordinance No. of 1899.
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A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to further amend the Prison Ör-
dinance, 1899.
Bɛ it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, us follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Prison Amend- ment Ordinance, 1911.
2. The Prison Ordinance, 1899, as amended by the Prison Amendment Ordinance, 1909, is hereby further amended as follows:-
(4.) in section 6 (1) thereof by the deletion of the
words "a prisoner shall be deemed to be in
legal custody and by the substitution therefor of the words
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a person shall be deemed to ho
a prisoner and in legal custody ";
(b.) in section 6 (1) thereof by the insertion after the words " lawfully confined." of the words
whether under criminal or civil process,” :
(e.) in section 11 (1) and also in section 11 (2) thereof by the insertion in each ease after the word "prison" of the words or from legal custody ".
Objects and Reusons.
There has been a recent decision to the effect that al- though persons in enstody on criminal process any be punished for escaping from such custody, and that although any person may be punished for escaping from prison, yet a person in lawful custody on civil process cannot be pun- ished for escaping from such custody unless he happens to escape from prisou. This Bill will have the effect of reversing that decision in future ensËS,
C. G. ALABASTER, Attorney Generat.
No. S. 187.-The following Bills which have been read a second time are substituted for those published under Government Notifications Nos. S. 42 of the 24th February, and S. 55 of 10th March, 1911, respectively :-
A
BILL
Short title.
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to abolish Minimum Penalties, and to bring the Law of the Colony as to Penalties into uniformity with the Law of England, and for other purposes.
WHEREAS it is expedient for the better administration of justice to abolish minimum penalties, and so to bring the law of the Colony as to penalties into uniformity with the law of England
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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 "Penalties Amendment Ordinance, 1911 ”.