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Imprisonment with hard labour, etc.
Interested party not to adjudicate.
Power to fine for false or frivolous case.
Form of declaration and penalty for perjury.
Execution of judgments and sentences and service of process:
No. 7.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1899
such flogging shall be reported to the Colonial Secretary and shall be carried out in such manner as the Governor may direct.
15. (1.) All persons sentenced under this Ordinance by any District or Sub-district Court to imprisonment with hard labour may be confined in such lock-up as the Governor may appoint for such purpose, and shall, while undergoing sentence, be subject, as to diet, treatment, class labour, and otherwise, to such rules as the Governor-in-Council may make in that behalf.
(2.) The Governor-in-Council is hereby authorized to make such rules.
16. No person having any pecuniary interest in the subject-matter of the litigation shall take part in the adjudication of any civil or criminal case.
17. If it appears to any such Court that any case has been falsely and maliciously or upon frivolous or vexatious grounds instituted therein, it shall be lawful for such Court to sentence the party instituting such case to a fine not exceeding ten dollars, and to award such fine or any part thereof to the aggrieved party; and if such aggrieved party accepts the same, he shall not be entitled to have or maintain any action for the recovery of damages in respect of the injury sustained by him by reason of such false and malicious, or frivolous, or vexatious prosecution.
18. (1.) It shall be lawful for the President of any such Court, for the purposes of the jurisdiction and duties hereby conferred upon him, and he is hereby authorized, to administer to any witness the following declaration in Chinese :- "You shall speak the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth in your evidence in this case.
(2.) If any person, in the unanimous opinion of the members of such Court, wilfully gives false evidence in open Court, such person so offending shall be subject to the payment of a fine not exceeding ten dollars or to imprisonment with hard labour for any term not exceeding one month, and the President may make a summary order for the punishment of such person accordingly, without any prosecution for perjury being instituted.
19. Every watchman shall be bound within the District or Sub-district to which he belongs, to execute all judgments and sentences when so required or directed, and to serve and execute all documents and processes in all cases which he may be required or directed by any District or Sub-district Court or any President thereof to serve or execute according to the extent of its jurisdiction, and to report such service or execution to such Court or President, as the case may be, and to receive into custody and detain all such persons as may be committed