THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 18, 1913.
5. Ordinance No. 12 of 1905 and also Ordinance No. 11 Repeal, of 1905 so far as the latter Ordinance has not been acted upon, are hereby repealed, but nothing in the repeal of Ordinance No. 11 of 1905 shall affect the rights of any person who holds stock under the authority of that Ordi-
nance.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 17th day of April, 1913.
R. H. CROFTON,
Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 18th day of April, 1913.
A. M. THOMSON,
Colonial Secretary.
SCHEDULE.
Purposes referred to in section 3 :-
Terminal Railway Station.
Manager's House and Staff Quarters.
Purchase of Land in connection with above items.
Stations at Tai Po Market and Sheung Shui.
Ganghuts and Cable through Tunnel.
Additions to Engine Shops.
Locomotives and Rolling Stock.
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HONGKONG.
No. 9 of 1913.
An Ordinance to amend the Offences against the
Person Ordinance, 1865.
I assent to this Ordinance.
LS
F. H. MAY, Governor.
[18th April, 1913.]
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 Offences against short title. the Person (Amendment) Ordinance, 1913, and shall be read and construed as one with the Offences against the Person Ordinance, 1865, (hereinafter called the Principal Ordi- nance), and this Ordinance and the said Ordinance may be cited together as the Offences against the Person Ordi- nanees, 1865 and 1913.
2. The Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the Amendment addition thereto after section 26 thereof of the following No. 2 of 1865
section :-
of Ordinance
by addition of new section 26a.
“26a.—(1.) If any persou over the age of sixteen years
Ill-treatment who has the custody, charge or care of any or neglect by
those in
child or young person under that age wilfully charge of
assaults, ill-treats, neglects, abandons or exposes child or such child or young person or causes or pro- young enres such child or young person to be assaulted, person. ill-treated, neglected, abandoned or exposed in f. 8 Edw. a manner likely to cause such child or young VII c. 67 person unnecessary suffering or injury to his s. 12. health (including injury to or loss of sight, or
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