THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 25, 1929.
9. Section 23 of the Police Force Ordinance, 1900, is Amendment amended as follows:
of Ordinance No. 11 of
(a) the words "Captain Superintendent or any 1900, s. 23.
Deputy Superintendent " in the seventh and eighth lines of sub-section (1) are repealed and the words
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Inspector General of Police, Deputy Inspector General of Police or any Divisional Superintendent are substituted
therefor;
()the words “ Superintendent or" are inserted immediately before the words "Assistant Superintendent' in the seventh line of sub- section (2);
(e) the words "Captain Superintendent or for any Deputy Superintendent in the sixth and seventh lines of sub-section (3) are repealed and the words "Inspector General of Police, Deputy Inspector General of Police or any Divisional Superintendent" are substituted therefor
(d) the words Captain Superintendent" in the second line of sub-section (5) are repealed and the words "Inspector General of Police" are substituted therefor;
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(e) the words "Captain Superintendent or (as the in case may be) a Deputy Superintendent the second and third lines of sub-section (6) are repealed and the words "Inspector General of Police, or (as the case may be) the Deputy Inspector General of Police, or a Divisional Superintendent, Superintendent are substi-
tuted therefor.
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10. Sub-section (2) of section 26 of the Police Force Amendment Ordinance, 1900, is repealed and the following sub-section of Ordinance
No. 11 of is substituted therefor :—
1900,
4 & 5
S. 22
(2) Whenever any person so apprehended s. 26° (2). Geo, 5, c. 58, without a warrant is brought to the officer in charge of any police station, it shall be lawful for such officer to inquire into the case and, unless the offence appears to such officer to be of a serious nature, to discharge the person upon his entering into a recognizance with or without sureties for a reasonable amount to appear before a magistrate at the time and place named in the recognizance, but where such person is retained in custody he shall be brought before a magistrate as soon as practi- cable. Every recognizance so taken shall be of equal obligation on the parties entering into the same, and shall be liable to the same pro- ceedings of estreating thereof, as if the same had been taken before a magistrate.
11. The following sub-section is inserted in the Police Insertion Force Ordinance, 1900, immediately after sub-section (3) of new of section 26 :-
s. 26 (4) in Ordinance
15 & 16
s. 15.
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1900.
(1) If, on a person being taken into custody No. 11 of Geo. 5, c. 86, as aforesaid, it appears to the officer in charge of the police station that the inquiry into the case cannot be completed forthwith, he may discharge the said person on his entering into a recognizance, with or without sureties for a reasonable amount, to appear at such police station and at such time as is named in the recognizance, unless he previously receives a notice in writing from the officer in charge of the police station that his attendance is not required and any such recognizance may be enforced as if it were a recognizance for the appearance of the said person before a magis-
trate.
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