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Trial of offences.
Summary convictions.
Punishment of whipping on second and subsequent convictions.
Form of information and proceedings.
ORDINANCES Nos. 6 AND 7 OF 1873.
Protection of Women-Emigration Abuses.
Property and Trustees Relief.
7. All offences against this Ordinance may be heard and determined summarily by two Magistrates sitting together, who shall constitute a Court for this purpose: Provided that if at the close of the investigation, the accused shall apply for a trial by jury, or the Magistrates shall be of opinion that the case ought to be so tried, they may commit the accused for trial at the Supreme Court.
8. The provisions of section 66 of Ordinance No. 4 of 1865 shall apply to every summary conviction under this Ordinance.
9. Whenever any person shall be convicted before the Supreme Court of any offence against the provisions of this Ordinance, if it shall be proved that the offender has been previously convicted either before the Supreme Court, or before two Magistrates sitting together, of an offence under the same or any other section of this Ordinance, it shall be lawful for the Court, in its discretion, to direct that, in addition to the punishment hereinbefore prescribed, the offender, if a male, be once, twice, or thrice publicly or privately whipped subject to the provisions contained in section 1 of Ordinance No. 3 of 1868; and all the provisions of section 94 of Ordinance No. 7 of 1865 relating to the form of information for a subsequent offence and proceedings thereon, shall apply to offences punishable under this Ordinance.
[Repealed by Ordinance No. 2 of 1875.]
Title
Preamble.
Repealing clause.
No. 7 of 1873.
An Ordinance to extend to this Colony some of the Provisions of certain Acts of the Imperial Parliament for the Relief of Trustees and Executors.
[9th July, 1873.]
WHEREAS it is expedient to extend to this Colony some of the provisions of certain Acts of the Imperial Parliament for the relief of trustees and executors: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. So much of section 1 of Ordinance No. 7 of 1856 and of such parts of the two schedules to the said Ordinance as extend to this Colony the Imperial Act 10 and 11 Vic., c. 96, and the General Orders of the High Court of Chancery of the 10th of June, 1848, are hereby repealed.