ORDINANCES Nos. 7 AND 8 OF 1865:
Larceny, &c.
Malicious Injuries to Property.
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ment of Ordinance.
101. This Ordinance shall commence and take effect on the fourteenth day of June, in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty-five.
No. 8 of 1865.
An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the Enactments in Force in this Colony relating to Malicious Injuries to Property.
WHERE
[3rd June, 1865.]
HEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the enactments in force in this Colony relating to malicious injuries to property: Be it therefore enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, by and with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :-
Injuries by Fire to Buildings and Goods therein :----
term not less
1. Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously set fire to any church, chapel, meeting house, or other place of divine worship, 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 three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and with or without solitary confinement, and, if a male under the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping.
2. Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously set fire to any dwelling house, any person being therein, 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 three years, or to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and with or without solitary confinement, and, if a male under the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping.
Title.
[ See 24 & 25 1. c. 97.]
Preamble.
Setting fire to chapel.
a church or
Setting fire to a dwelling house, any person being therein..
a house, &c.
3. Whosoever shall unlawfully and maliciously set fire to any house, stable, coach-house, outhouse, warehouse, godown, office, shop, store, mill, store house, granary, hovel, shed, or fold, or to any farm building, or to any building or erection used in farming land, or in carrying on any trade or manufacture or any branch thereof, whether the same shall