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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH JULY, 1891.
informer is named or described, or which might lead to his discovery, the Court or Magistrate shall cause all such pas- sages to be concealed from view or to be obliterated so far may be necessary to protect the informer from discovery but no further. But if in any proceedings before a Magis- trate for any offence against any provision of the said Ordi- nances or this Ordinance the Magistrate after full inquiry into the case shall believe that the informer wilfully made in his information a' material statement which he knew or believed to be false or did not believe to be true, or if in any other proceeding the Court or Magistrate shall be of opinion that justice cannot be fully done between the parties thereto without the discovery of the informer, it shall be lawful for the Court or Magistrate to require the production of the original information, and to permit inquiry and require full disclosure concerning the informer.
Penalties.
60. For every offence against this Ordinance or against any regulation made thereunder not otherwise specially provided for, the offender shall, besides the forfeiture of opium and implements provided by section 52, be liable ou summary conviction to the following penalties:
(1.) For every first offence, a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment with or with- out hard labour for a term not exceeding throe months.
(2.) For every subsequent offence, a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or imprisonment with or without hard labour for a term not exceeding six months.
61. A portion not exceeding half of the pecuniary penalty recovered from any offender against this Ordinance may at the discretion of the Magistrate be awarded to the informer, and in every case relating to prepared opium the re- mainder of any such penalty recovered shall be paid to the opium farmer except in the cases provided for by sec- tion 55.
62. Whosoever shall assault, resist or wilfully obstruct any excise officer in the due execution of his duty under The Opium Ordinances 1884 to 1887 or this Ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and upon conviction thereof shall be liable in the discretion of the Magistrate or Supreme Court to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years with or without hard labour.
Repeals, &c.
63. Ordinances Nos. 1 of 1884, 17 of 1886, and 22 of 1887 and so much of Ordinance No. 8 of 1879 section 38 subs. 8 and 9 as relates to special permits or night clear- ance are hereby repealed, but such repeal shall not affect any thing lawfully done or commenced to be done there- under, or any privilege granted and every regulation, bond, licence, or appointment made or issued under the above repealed Ordinances shall continue in full effect as if made- or issued under this Ordinance, until such regulation, bond, licence, or appointment shall be duly cancelled, amended; or withdrawn, or shall expire.
64. This Ordinance shall not come into operation unless and until the Officer Administering the Government notifies by proclamation that it is Her Majesty's pleasure not to disallow the same, and thereafter it shall come into operation upon such day as the Officer Administering the Govern- ment shall notify by the same or any other proclamation.
SCHEDULES.
Exception.
Penalties.
(1 of 84, 33: See 22 of 87, passim.)
Informer's share.
(1 of 84, 84.)
Protection of excise officers in excention of their duty,
&c.
Repeale
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Appointment of Excise Officer,
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is hereby appointed to be an excise officer under the above Ordinance, and is duly vested with all the rights, powers, and immunities of such officer under the provisions of the said Ordinance, until
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or until this licence is revoked by the Governor of this Colony for the time being.
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