THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 22ND MAY, 1886.
Evidence.
20. The following Rules shall be enacted with respect to Evidence under this Ordinance :-
(1.) The Production of the Hongkong Government Gazette containing a Notice of the grant or withdrawal of a Certificate by the Governor to or from a Reformatory School or of the resignation of any such Certificate, shall be sufficient Evidence of the fact of the publication of such Notice and also of the fact of a Certificate having been duly granted to or withdrawn from the School named in the Notice, or resigned by the Managers thereof.
(2.) The grant of a Certificate to a certified School may also be proved by the production of the Certificate itself, or of a copy of the same, pur- porting to be signed by the Colonial Secretary. (3.) The production of the Warrant or other Docu- ment in pursuance of which a youthful offender is directed to be sent to a certified Reformatory School, with a statement endorsed thereon or annexed thereto, purporting to be signed by the Manager or other person in charge of the School, to the effect that the offender therein named was duly received into and is at the date of the signing thereof detained in the School, or has been otherwise dealt with according to Law, shall in all proceedings relating to such offender be Evidence of the identity of and of the due convic- tion and detention and imprisonment of the offender named in the warrant or other document. (4.) A copy of the Rules of a certified Reformatory School, purporting to be signed by the Superin- tendent of the Victoria Gaol, shall be Evidence of such Rules in all Legal Proceedings whatever. (5.) A School to which any youthful offender is directed to be sent in pursuance of this Ordinance shall, until the contrary is proved, be deemed to be a certified Reformatory School within the mea- ning of this Ordinance.
Legal Proceedings.
21. Any Notice may be served on the Managers of a certified Reformatory School by delivering the same per- sonally to any one of them, or by sending it by Post or otherwise, in a letter addressed to them or any of them at the School, or at the usual or last known place of abode of any Manager, or of their Secretary.
Forms.
22. No Summons, Notice, or Order made for the pur- pose of carrying into effect the Provisious of this Ordinance shall be invalidated for wang, of Form only; and the Forms in the Schedule to this Ordinance annexed, or Forms to the like effect, may be used in the cases to which they refer, with such variations as circumstances require and when used shall be deemed sufficient.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 14th day of May, 1886.
ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 21st day of May, 1886.
FREDERICK STEWRAT,
Acting Colonial Secretary,
SCHEDULE OF FORMS.
Rules respect-
ing Evidence under this Ordinance. (29 & 30 V. c. 117, s. 33.)
Service of notice on Managers of School. (29 & 30 V. c. 117, s. 35.)
Use of Forms in Schedule. (29 & 30 V. c. 117, 36.)
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(A.) Conviction.
HONGKONG Be it remembered that on the
TO WIT.
1
18 A.B., of
to wit, of the age of
day of
under the age of sixteen, is convicted before me C.D.,
for the said Colony of Hongkong, for that (here state offence),
In pursuance of the Reformatory Schools Ordinance, 1886, I have sentenced the said A.B. to be sent forthwith to the Reformatory School at
the Manager whereof is willing to
receive him, and to be there detained for the period of
commencing on and from
Given under my hand and seal the day, month and year first abové written.
[L.S.]
C. D.