1428 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 22, 1907.
DESPATCHES FROM THE SECRETARY OF STATE.
No. 765.
CIRCULAR.
DOWNING STREET,
8th October, 1907.
SIR,-With reference to Lord Knutsford's Circular despatch of the 31st of December, 1889, I have the honour to transmit, for your information and for publication in the Colony, a copy of an Order of the King in Council embodying regulations as to the removal and return of prisoners and criminal lunatics under the provisions of the Colonial Prisoners' Removal Act 1884 (47 and 48 Victoria, cap. 31).
I have, &c.,
The Officer Administering the Government of
HONGKONG.
ELGIN.
AT THE COURT AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE,
THE 9TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1907.
PRESENT,
THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTY.
SIR CHARLES HARDINGE
LORD PRESIDENT
LORD DENMAN
MR. HARCOURT.
HIS MAJESTY, by virtue and in exercise of the powers in this behalf, rested in Hin by the Colonial Prisoners' Removal Act, 1884, is pleased, by and with the advice of His Privy Council to make the following Order as to the removal and return of prisoners and criminal lunatics under the said Act:-
I. Every prisoner removed under the said Act from a British Possession to the United Kingdom for the purpose of undergoing the residue of a sentence involving confinement in a prison combined with hard labour, shall, in the United Kingdom, be dealt with as follows that is to say,
If the original period of his sentence did not exceed two years, in the same manner as if he had been sentenced in the United Kingdom to imprisonment with hard labour for the same period.
And if the original period of his sentence exceeded two years, in the same manner, as nearly as may be, as if he had been sentenced in the United Kingdom to penal servitude for the same period.
II. Every prisoner removed under the said Act from one British Possession to another British Possession for the purpose of undergoing the residue of a sentence shall in such last- mentioned British Possession be dealt with in the same manner as if he had there been son- tenced to such punishment authorized by the law thereof as in the opinion of the Secretary of State signing the Order of Removal shall most nearly correspond to the punishment to which he was sentenced in the first mentioned British Possession, and for the same period.