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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 5TH JUNE, 1886.
Combination to stop trade.
Information.
Banishment.
Punishment.
Banishment.
Status of naturaliza- tion.
Report to Secretary of State.
Indemnity.
or in which he may have reasonable cause to suspect that persons about to break the peace are assembled, and may apprehend and take into custody the said persons, and every person so arrested may be detained until he can be conve- niently brought before a Magistrate to be dealt with accord- ing to law.
11. Any person during the continuance of any Procla- mation under this Ordinance, unlawfully combining to pro- cure a stoppage, of the sale or transit from place to place of provisions or other articles, or unlawfully combining to procure Shopkeepers, Dealers, or other persons to discon- tinue the sale or transit from place to place of provisions or other articles, or preventing or endeavouring to prevent any person from purchasing or from being supplied with any such articles, shall, on summary conviction thereof before a Magistrate be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding three months, or to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, or to both,
PART III,
Banishment.
12. Whenever during the existence of any Proclamation under this Ordinance, it shall be represented by the Captain Superintendent of Police to the Governor in Council, on written information, that the removal from the Colony of any person not a natural born subject of Her Majesty, whether such person shall have been naturalized under the provisions of any Colonial Ordinance or not, is necessary for the public safety, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, if it shall appear to him after making such enquiry as to him may seem sufficient, to be necessary for the public safety that such person should be banished from the Colony, to issue an order banishing such person from the Colony, in such man- ner as to the Governor in Council may seem expedient; and the Governor may take such steps as may be necessary for carrying into effect the said order of banishment in the manner prescribed; and any person so ordered to be banished may be detained by order of the Governor, in any place, or on board any ship in the waters of the Colony, pending the carrying into effect of the order of banishment, and if he shall be found in the Colony after the time fixed for his departure in the order of banishment, which shall in no case be less than seven days from the date of the order, he may be arrested without warrant by any Justice of the Peace or Officer or Constable of Police and shall, on being brought before a Magistrate be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, and shall be liable to be detained in such prison or place on shore, or on board such ship, in the Colony, as the Governor may appoint, until his banishment from the Colony can again be carried out in the manner hereinbefore provided; and if it shall appear that any person so ordered to be banished is a naturalized British subject as aforesaid, the order of banish- ment shall further declare the Status of Naturalization of such person to be suspended; such suspension being subject to confirmation or disallowance by Her Majesty, through one of Her Majesty's Principal Secretaries of State, and such confirmation or disallowance of such order shall be published in the Government Gazette of the Colony.
Every order of banishment made under this Ordinance shall be forthwith reported by the Governor to Her Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for the Colonies.
The provisions of this Section shall not be construed to limit any powers in relation to banishment conferred on the Governor in Council under Ordinance 8 of 1882.
13. No person acting in good faith under the provisions of this Ordinance shall be liable in damages or otherwise for any act done by him in pursuance of the obligation and duty imposed or reasonably supposed to be imposed on him by this Ordinance.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 4th day of May, 1886.
ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils,
Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 2nd day of June, 1886.
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
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