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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 3, 1915.
Amendment
Ordinances amending the same, and the said Ordinances and this Ordinance may be cited together as the Magis- trates Ordinances, 1890-1915.
2. Section 11 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by of Ordinance the repeal of the words "where a Magistrate is empowered to make an order for the payment of money or otherwise" in the first and second lines of sub-section (2) thereof.
No. 3 of 1890, s. 11: 11 & 12 Vict., c. 43, s. 2.
Amendment
of Ordinance
No. 3 of 1890, s. 14:
11 & 12 Vict., c. 43, s. 13.
Provisions of sections 2 and 3 to apply to
every sum- mons issued after the
commence- ment of this Ordinance.
Amendment
3. Section 14 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by the repeal of the words "in any case where he is em- powered to make an order for the payment of money or otherwise" in the eighth, ninth and tenth lines of sub-sec- tion (1) thereof.
4. The provisions of sections 2 and 3 of this Ordinance shall apply to every summons issued after the commence- ment of this Ordinance notwithstanding that such summons may relate to something done or omitted before the com- mencement of this Ordinance.
5. Section 80 of the Principal Ordinance is amended by of Ordinance the substitution of the words "two hundred and fifty" for the figures "100" in the seventh line of sub-section (1) thereof.
No. 3 of
1890, s. 80.
Power to fine in all cases. 42 & 43
8. 4.
6. Where a magistrate has authority under any enact- ment, whether past or future, to impose imprisonment of any description, for an offence, and has not authority to Vict., c. 49, impose a fine for that offence, a magistrate may notwith- standing, if he thinks that the justice of the case will be better met by a fine than by imprisonment, impose a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars, provided that the magistrate shall not impose on the offender, in default of payment of the fine, any greater term of imprisonment than that to which such offender would have been liable under the enactment authorising the said imprisonment.
Amendment
7. Ordinance No. 28 of 1913 is amended by the inser- of Ordinance tion of the word "Further" before the word "Amend- No. 28 of
ment in the second line of section 1 thereof.
1913, s. 1.
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Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 2nd day of December, 1915.
A. G. M. FLETCHER,
Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 3rd day of December, 1915.
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.
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