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Governor in Council
may regulate the
Right to Pensions,
mentioned.
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH MAY, 1868.
II. Subject to the Provision hereinbefore contained, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council from time to time to regulate the General Conditions upon which, &c., subject as above and the manner in which Pensions, Superannuation Allowances, or other Relief, are to be granted to Members of the Police Force and to determine in each particular case whether there shall or shall not be granted to any Member of the Police Force, a Pension, Superannuation Allowance, or other Relief, and in the event of the Governor in Council determining that there shall be granted to any Member of the Police Force, a Pension, Superannuation Allowance, or other Relief to further determine the Amount to be paid in respect thereof and the terms on which and the manner in which the same shall be paid.
Pension may be
revoked if recipient to have been guilty of corrupt practice in
afterwards discovered
execution of his Office.
Commencement of Ordinance.
Title.
Preamble.
Provisions of 36 Geo.
Geo. 3, chap. 6, not
Colony, except as to
III. Ifat any time after the granting of a Pension whether now existing or hereafter to be granted to any Member of the Police Force it be proved to the satisfaction of the Governor in Council that the Person to whom such Pension may have been granted had been guilty of any corrupt practices in the execution of his office either by receiving bribes or by inducing or compelling payment directly or indirectly of any valuable consideration to himself or to any other party or by otherwise acting corruptly in the execution of or under color of his Office as a Member of the Police, then in every such case it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to revoke and annul the grant of such Pension and no claim to any further payment on account of a Pension declared to be revoked as aforesaid shall be valid.
IV. This Ordinance shall commence and take effect on such Day as shall hereafter be fixed by Proclamation under the hand of the Governor.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, to assimilate the Law of this Colony respecting Treasonable Offences to the Law of the United Kingdom.
Whereas it is expedient to assimilate the Law of this Colony respecting Treasonable Offences to the Law of the United Kingdom: Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the Advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows: I. From and after the passing and coming into operation of this Ordinance the 3, chap. 7, and 57 Provisions of an Act of the Imperial Parliament passed in the Thirty-sixth Year of the to be of Force in this Reign of KING GEORGE the Third, Chapter Seven made perpetual by an Act of the Offences against the Imperial Parliament of the Fifty-seventh Year of the same Reign, Chapter Six, and all the Provisions of the last mentioned Act in relation thereto, save such of the same respectively as relate to the compassing, imagining, inventing, devising, or intending Death, or Destruction, or any bodily Harm tending to Death, or Destruction, Maim or Wounding, Imprisonment, or Restraint of the Person of the Heirs and Successors of His said Majesty KING GEORGE the Third, and the expressing, uttering or declaring of such Compassings, Imaginations, Inventions, Devices, or Intentions, or any of them, shall cease to be of Force in this Colony.
Person of the Sovereign.
Offences declared Felonies by this Ordinance to be
Servitude or
Imprisonment.
II. If any Person whatsoever after the passing and coming into operation of this Ordinance shall, within this Colony or without, compass, imagine, invent, devise, or punishable by renal intend to deprive or depose our Most Gracious Lady the QUEEN, Her Heirs or Successors from the Style, Honor or Royal Name of the Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom or of any other of Her Majesty's Dominions or Countries, or to levy War against Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors within any part of the United Kingdom in order by Force or Constraint to compel Her or Them to change Her or Their Measures or Counsels or in order to put any Force or Constraint upon, or in order to intimidate or overawe both Houses or either House of the Imperial Parliament or to move or stir any Foreigner or Stranger with Force to invade the United Kingdom, or any other, Her Majesty's Dominions or Countries under the Obeisance of Her Majesty, Her Heirs or Successors and such Compassings, Imaginations, Inventions, Devices, or Intentions, or any of them shall express with, or declare by, publishing any Printing or Writing or by open and advised Speaking or by any Overt Act or Deed, every Person so offending shall be guilty of Felony, and being convicted thereof, shall be liable, at the Discretion of the Court, to be kept in Penal Servitude for Life, or for any Term not less than Seven Years, or to be Imprisoned for any Term not exceeding Two Years, with or without Hard Labor, and with or without Solitary Confinement.
Time within which
III. Provided always that no Person shall be prosecuted for any Felony by virtue Prosecution shall be of this Ordinance in respect of such Compassings, Imaginations, Inventions, Devices or Intentions as aforesaid, in so far as the same are expressed, uttered, or declared by open and advised Speaking only unless Information of such Compassings, Imaginations,
commenced, Warrant issued, &c.