THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 27TH FEBRUARY, 1875.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to render personation with intent to deprive any person of any property felony.
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1874.]
W personation: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong
HEREAS it is expedient to amend the law relating to
kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
Title.
Preamble.
obtain
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I. If any person shall falsely and deceitfully personate any Personation person, or the heir, executor, or administrator, wife, widow, in order to next of kin, or relation of any person, with intent fraudulently proTM to obtain any land, estate, chattel, money, valuable security, perty to be or property, he shall be guilty of felony, and upon conviction [37 & 38 shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court by which he is Vic., cap. convicted, to be kept in penal servitude for life, or for any 36, § 1.] period not less than three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labor, and with or without solitary confinement.
II. Nothing in this Ordinance shall prevent any person from Saving. being proceeded against and punished under any other Or-[Ibid, $ 2.] dinance, or at Common Law, in respect of an offence (if any) punishable as well under this Ordinance as under any other Ordinance, or at Common Law.
III. This Ordinance may be cited for all purposes as "The Short title. False Personation Ordinance, 1874."
[Ibid, § 4.]
Statement of Objects and Reasons.
This Ordinance is a transcript of a recent Act of the Imperial Parliament 37 and 38, Vic., cap. 36. It simplifies the mode of proceeding in cases of fraudulent personation, and increases the punishment on conviction.
The only difference between this Ordinance and the Imperial Act, is in the minimum of penal servitude-the Act fixes it at five years, and the maximum of imprisonment at two years with nothing between the Ordinance proposes the same scale of punishment as for other felonies.
Hongkong, 8th December, 1874.
JOHN BRAMSTON, Attorney General.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to provide means for enforcing good order, and discipline in the Police Force employed in the Royal Naval Yard.
WE
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Title.
HEREAS it is expedient to provide means for enforcing Preamble.
good order and discipline in the Police Force employed
in the Royal Naval Yard at Hongkong: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
I. The Commodore Superintendent or other officer in Rules and charge of Her Majesty's Naval Yard, may make and issue rules regulations and regulations for the government of the Police Force employed may be made.
in the said Yard.
II. In case of breach of discipline or neglect of duty by Power to the any member of the said Police Force, the Commodore Superin- Commodore to tendent or other officer in charge of the Naval Yard may, breach of dis-
punish for on proof thereof to his satisfaction, order the offender to forfeit cipline. and pay a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars;
Or may award imprisonment for any term not exceeding
seven days with forfeiture of pay;
Or if he think fit may bring the offender before a Magis- trate, and the Magistrate on proof of the offence may award imprisonment for any term not exceeding fourteen days with or without hard labor, together with forfeiture of all pay during such imprisonment. III. Whenever any member of the said Police Force shall Penalties for be guilty of any neglect or violation of duty in his office;
Or shall be guilty of any disobedience to the instructions, rules, or regulations made and issued by the Commodore Superintendent or other officer in charge of the Naval
Yard;
Or of any other misconduct as a member of the said Police
Force;
Or having duly engaged himself to serve in the force shall
desert therefrom;
other offences.
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