THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, FEB. 23, 1906.
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No. 153. The following Bills were read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 22nd February, 1906:-
A BILL
EXTITLED
An Ordinance to amend the Summary Offences
(Amendment) Ordinance, 1905.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:---
title.
1. This Ordinance shall be construed as one with the Construction Summary Offences Ordinance, 1815, as amended by the and short Summary Offences (Amendment) Ordinance, 1905, and may be cited as "The Summary Offences (Further Amendment) Ordinance, 1906.”
2. Section 2 of the Summary Offences (Amendment) Repeal of Ordinance, 1905, is hereby repealed, and the said Ordinance section 2 of
the Summary shall be read as if the following section appeared therein
Offences instead of the repealed section :—
(Amend-
2. For the purposes of sections 3 and 4 of this Ordi- ment) Ordi-
anul new
uance the expressions thoroughfare and nance, 1905. "public place "shall be deemed to include and section extend to all thoroughfares, streets, roads, lanes, substitutei
therefor. alleys, courts, squares, archways, passages, paths, ways, and places in the Colony to which Certain the public have access either continuously or include pri- periodically, whether the same are the property vately owned of the Crown or of private persons.”
terms to
streets and
ways.
Objects and Reasons,
The object is to confine the meaning of the expressions "thoroughfare" and "public place" as used in the Sum- mary Offences (Amendment) Ordinance, 1995, to the pur- poses of sectious 3 and 4 of that Ordinance inasmuch as the unofficial members of the Council understood when voting for the passing of that Ordinance that the scope and meaning of those expressions was so confined.
HENRY S. BERKELEY, Attorney General.
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance further to amend the Magistrates
Ordinance, 1890..
BF 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 Magistrates Short title (Amendment) Ordinance, 1906, and shall be read and con- and con- strued as one with the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, here- inafter called the Principal Ordinance.
2. Sub-section 4 of section 17 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed and the following is substituted there-
for :-
struction.
Repeal of sub-section 4
of section 17 of the Prin-
new sub-
* 17.—(4.) If any person having come before any cipal Ordin-
Magistrate whether voluntarily or in obedience auce, and to a summons or having been brought before him section sub- by warrant or otherwise shall refuse to be sworn stituted or having been sworn shall without just excuse therefor. refuse to answer such questions as shall be put Frovision as to him concerning the premises the Magistrate to witness may by warrant under his hand and seal com- refusing to mit the person so refusing to prison for any answer ques- time not exceeding two months unless he in ions. the meantime shall consent to be sworn and to answer concerning the premises or such Magis- trate may impose upon such person a fine not execeding twenty dollars.”
be sworn or
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