THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 4TH MAY, 1889.
may require and if they are sealed with the official seal of some Officer of State in China and all Courts in the Colony shall for the purposes of this Ordinance take judicial notice of such seal and shall admit the documents so authenticated by it without further proof.
17. Every person who is accused or convicted of having counselled procured commanded aided or abetted the com- mission of any extradition crime or of being accessory before the fact to any extradition crime shall be deemed for the purposes of this Ordinance to be accused or convicted of having committed such crime and shall be liable to be apprehended and surrendered accordingly.
18. If any suit or action be brought against a Magis- trate Superintendent of the Victoria Gaol, Gaoler Police Officer, Constable or any other person for anything done under or in obedience to any warrant or order issued under the provisions of this Ordinance, the proof of such war- rant or order shall be a sufficient answer to such suit or action, and the defendant on such proof as aforesaid shall be entitled to a verdict or judgment accordingly and shall also be entitled to all costs of suit.
19. The forms in the second schedule hereto or forms to the like effect with such variations and additions as circum- stances require may be used for the purposes therein indi- cated and according to the directions therein contained and instruments in these forms shall (as regards the form thereof) be valid and sufficient.
20. 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 opera- tion on such day as the Officer Administering the Govern- ment shall notify by the same or any other proclamation.
Aid and abetters in extradition crimes.
Protection of Magistrate and others acting under warrant.
Forms.
Suspending clause.
FIRST SCHEDULE.
EXTRADITION CRIMES.
Murder and attempt to murder. Manslaughter.
Malicious wounding.
Counterfeiting or altering money, uttering or bringing into circulation counterfeit or altered money.
Forgery, or counterfeiting or altering, or uttering what is forged, or counterfeited or altered, comprehending the crimes designated in the laws of Hongkong as counterfeiting or falsifica- tion of paper money, bank notes, or other securities, forgery, or other falsification of other public or private documents, likewise the uttering or bringing into circulation, or wilfully using such counterfeited, forged, or falsified papers.
Embezzlement or larceny.
Receiving stolen goods.
Obtaining money or goods by false pretences.
Crimes against bankruptcy law.
Fraud committed by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee, or director, or member or public officer of any Company, made
criminal by any law for the time being in force.
Rape.
Abduction.
Child stealing.
Kidnapping.
False imprisonment.
Burglary, or house-breaking.
Arson.
Robbery with violence.
Threats by letter or otherwise with intent to extort.
Piracy whether by law of nations or by municipal law.
Sinking or destroying a vessel at sea, or attempting to do so. Assaults on board a ship on the high seas, with intent to des-
troy life, or to do grievous bodily harm.
Revolt, or conspiracy to revolt, by two or more persons on board a ship on the high seas, against the authority of the master.
Perjury or subornation of perjury.
Malicious injury to property, if the offence be indictable. Any indictable offence under Ordinance No. 7 of 1865 entitled "An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the Enactments in force in this Colony relating to Larceny and other similar offences any Ordinance amending or substituted for the same which is not included in the foregoing list.
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Any indictable offence under Ordinance No. 6 of 1865 entitled "An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the Enactments in force in this Colony relating to indictable offences by forgery or any Ordinance amending or substituted for the same which is not included in the foregoing list.
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