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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH MARCH, 1887,
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to Consolidate and Amend the Law for the Establishment and Regulation of the Police Force of the Colony.
BE
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the
advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
PART I.-Preliminary.
1. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as The Police Force Consolidation Ordinanee, 1887.
2. In this Ordinance the expression subordinate officer shall mean every member of the Police Force above the rank of constable except the Captain Superintendent, the Deputy Superintendent, or Adjutant, and the word pension shall include any allowance in the nature of a pension or any gratuity on retirement.
3. Ordinances No. 9 of 1862, No. 8 of 1869 and No. 7 of 1871 are hereby repealed but such repeals shall not affect the past operation of the said Ordinances or anything done or suffered thereunder or any appointment made or any right acquired under the said Ordinances or any of them.
4. The existing establishment of Police for the service of the Colony mentioned in the 1st Schedule hereto shall as heretobefore be under the command and control of a Cap- tain Superintendent and the members thereof shall obey all such lawful commands as they may from time to time re- ceive from the said Captain Superintendent.
5. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to increase, or diminish the strength of the said Force as may to him appear expedient. Provided always that the ways and means shall be considered as heretofore in the estimates laid before the Legislative Council and that the supply required for the payment of the said establishment shall also be voted annually as heretofore and included in the annual appropriation Ordinances.
6. It shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time to appoint such agents, with reasonable remuneration for their services, and repayment of disbursements, as to him shall seem necessary, for the enlistment in other portions of Her Majesty's Dominions, of fit and proper men for service in the Police Force for this Colony.
PART II-Regulation.
7. The Captain Superintendent, Deputy Superintendent, or Adjutant shall, previous to entering on the duties of their respective Offices, take before the Governor the Oath of Allegiance and the Official Oath as set forth in Ordinance No. 4 of 1869 sections 2 & 3. ;
And the Captain Superintendent shall, during his tenure of the office, have and exercise all the powers of a Justice of the Peace, with regard to the Police Force, or any mem- ber or members thereof.
8. All subordinate officers and constables shall, before appointment, be examined, and approved by the Captain Superintendent and Colonial Surgeon, and having been so examined and approved of according to the forms in the 3rd Schedule hereto annexed shall go before a Magistrate and answer the questions, and subscribe and take the oath or make the declaration contained in the 3rd Schedule hereto. 9. Every subordinate officer and constable shall, except as is hereinafter mentioned, engage and bind himself to serve in the Police Force for the term of five years, during which term he shall not be at liberty to resign his office or to withdraw himself from the duties thereof, except as is hereinafter provided.
10. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to authorise the appointment of any number of constables for such periods of less than five years and upon such special terms and conditions as he shall from time to time deem expedient.
11. Every constable so appointed under the preceding section shall bind himself to serve for such period and upon such terms and conditions as shall be agreed upon, and he shall not be at liberty to resign or withdraw himself from the force before the expiration of the period of his engage- ment, except as hereinafter provided.
12. All the provisions of this Ordinance, except the provisions of sections 9, 13, 15, 16, 17 and 18 shall so far as the same be not inconsistent with the terms and condi- tions agreed upon, apply equally to constables appointed under or in pursuance of section 10, but in case any such constable shall be subsequently appointed under or in pur- suance of sections 8 and 9 the whole of his time of service
Title.
Short Title.
Interpreta- tion.
Repeal.
Police Force establishment and salaries. (No.9 of 1862, B. 2 & 8. 4.) (10 Geo. IV. c. 44, B. 4.)
Power to
Governor to diminish or
increase Police Force. [Ibid. s. 3.]
Payment of Force to be voted in annual estimmtes. (Ibid. s. 5.)
Agents to enlist men for the force. [Ibid. s. 6.]
Oath of Captain Super- intendent. (Ibid. s. 7.)
Captain Super- intendent to be a Justice of the Peace in relation to matters of police.
Subordinate officers and coustables to be examined. [[bid. B. 8.]
Officers and constables to be engaged for five years. [Ibid. 8. 9.]
Power to enrol
constables for limited
periods. [No. 7 of 1871, & 21
Eurolment under this Ordinance. [lbid, s. 3.)
Application of Ordinance to constables appointed under s. 10. [Ord. No. 7 of 1871, s. 4, 6.)
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