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circulated to the members of the Executive Council, and the Governor in Council will have power to rescind such It seems regulations or to amend them in any manner. unnecessary to publish such regulations in the Gazette as very few of them affect the public. None of them will impose any obligation on the public. If any member of the public ever has occasion to inquire into the existence of any particular regulation he will always be able to make inquiry from the superior officers of the police force.
6. Section 10 of this Ordinance substitutes a new sub- section for sub-section (2) of section 26 of the principal Ordinance. That sub-section is open to certain minor objections. It deals with the question of taking bail by officers in charge of police stations. In the first place, on a strict reading, it enables the police officer to take bail In only "if no magistrate is in attendance at bis office". the second place, it provides that the recognizance must require the attendance of the accused at "the earliest time then next after when a magistrate will be in attendance at his office". In the third place, the sub-section contains no provision to the effect that a prisoner who is not bailed out must be brought before a magistrate as soon as practi- cable. This last provision does occur in section 27 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, Ordinance No. 3 of 1890, but it is convenient to have it in the Police Force The new Ordinance, in the section dealing with bail. sub-section meets the above objections. It is practically a copy of section 22 of the Criminal Justice Administra- tion Act, 1914, 4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 58.
7. Section 11 of this Ordinance adds to section 26 of the principal Ordinance a new sub-section which is taken from section 45 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1925, 15 & 16 Geo. 5, c. 86. It provides that if a prisoner is brought to a police station, and the officer in charge considers that the inquiry into the case cannot be completed forthwith, that officer may discharge the prisoner upon his entering into a recognizance to appear at such police station and at sneh time as is named in the recogizance.
8. Section 12 of this Ordinance inserts in the principal Ordinance a new section 26 A which is based ou section 44 of the Criminal Justice Act, 1925, It provides that a warrant of arrest may be lawfully executed by any officer of police notwithstanding that the warrant is not in his possession at the time, This provision is not necessary in Hong Kong in the case of offences against Hong Kong law, because the police have a general power of arrest without warrant, but it may be useful in such cases as extradition and deportation.
9. Section 14 of this Ordinance is the usual section providing for the general substitution of "luspector General of Police" for "Captain Superintendent of Police" in all enactments, contracts and other documents where such substitution is necessary in order to give effect thereto,
3rd September, 1929.
J. H. KEMP,
Attorney General,