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The provisions of this Ordinance respecting the construction of Ordinances passed after the commencement of this Ordinance shall affect the construction of any Ordinance passed before the commencement of this Ordinance, although it is continued or amended by Ordinance passed after such commencement.
A.D. 1897.
Ordinance No. 25 of 1897, with Ordinance No. 29 of 1899 incorporated.
ORDINANCE No. 9 OF 1897.
AN ORDINANCE to amend the Law relating to Vagrants
[22nd November, 1897]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Vagrancy Ordinance, 1897.
2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires,
"Vagrant" means any person, other than a Chinese, found asking for alms or being without either employment or visible means of subsistence:
"Agent" of a vessel includes any person who undertakes the agency of such vessel, although he may not be the consignee thereof.
3.--(1.) The Governor may provide a House of Detention for vagrants at such place as he may think proper, and may appoint a Superintendent and such officers as he may think proper, and may remove any such Superintendent or officers at pleasure.
(2.) The Governor may, by notification in The Gazette, certify any building or part of a building to be a House of Detention for the purposes of this Ordinance.
(3.) Until any such house is provided, Victoria Gaol may be used as such house for the purposes of this Ordinance.
4-(1.) Every House of Detention shall be under the immediate charge of a Superintendent, who shall be appointed, and may be suspended or removed, by the Governor.
(2) Until any other appointment is made, the Superintendent of Victoria Gaol for the time being shall be the Superintendent of the House of Detention: