THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 24, 1937.
Schedule, contd.
SHORT TITLE.
AMENDMENT OR REPEAL.
55. The Criminal Pro- cedure Ordinance,
1899.
(No. 9 of 1899.), -contd.
56. The
(2) The offender, when apprehended, shall, if not brought forthwith before the court, be brought before a magistrate.
(3) The magistrate before whom an offender on apprehension is brought, or before whom he appears in pursuance of such summons as aforesaid, may remand him in custody or on bail until he can be brought before the court.
(4) An offender so remanded to custody may be committed during remand to a prison, or, if he is a child or young person under the age of sixteen, to a place of detention provided under the Juvenile Ordinance Offenders Ordinance, 1932.
(5) The court, on being satisfied that a person bound by his recognizance to appear for conviction and sentence has failed to observe any condition of his recog- nizance, may forthwith, without further proof of his guilt, convict and sentence him for the original offence."
(6) Section 103 (1) is amended by the repeal of the word he "in the fifth line thereof and the substitution therefor of the words
such person".
Merchant (1) Section 3 is amended:. Shipping Ordin- ance, 1899. (No. 10 of 1899.)
(i) by renumbering paragraphs (c) and (d) of sub-section (1) thereof as para- graphs (b) and (c) of that sub-section;
(ii) by renumbering sub-sections (8) and (15) thereof as sub-sections (2) and (3).
(2) Section 4, as amended by Ordinances No.
11 of 1931, No. 28 of 1933 and No. 28 of 1935, is amended:-
and
(i) by the repeal of the words shall be deemed always to have been lawful in the second line of the last pro- viso to sub-section (2) thereof;
(ii) by the repeal of the word "Schedule" in the third line of sub- section (3) thereof and the substitution therefor of the word Regulations
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(i) by the repeal of the words "Table E in the Schedule (as amended by the Governor in Council) and for the time being in force in the third and fourth lines of sub-section (3A) thereof and the substitution therefor of the words "Table E in the Regulations for the time being in force
(3) Section 5 is amended:
"
(i) by the repeal in sub-section (1) thereof of the words the present Mercantile Marine Office shall be deemed to be the place appointed until the Governor shall appoint some other place ";
No. 1 of 1932.
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