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Protection of Magistrate, etc., acting under the Ordinance.
Use of forms. Second Schedule.
Power to Governor-in-Council to repeal or suspend the Ordinance or part thereof.
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17. If any action is brought against a Magistrate, gaoler, officer of Police, or any other person for anything done in obedience to any warrant or order issued under the provisions of this Ordinance, the proof of such warrant or order shall be a sufficient answer to such action; and the defendant or defendants on such proof as aforesaid shall be entitled to a verdict or judgment in his or their favour, and shall also be entitled to his or their full costs of the action.
18. The forms in the Second Schedule to this Ordinance or forms to the like effect, with such variations and additions as circumstances may require, may be used for the purposes therein indicated, and instruments in those forms shall (as regards the form thereof) be valid and sufficient.
19. In case the Governor-in-Council deems it expedient that this Ordinance or any part thereof should be repealed or the operation thereof suspended for any period, it shall be lawful for the Governor of this Colony, by proclamation in The Gazette, to declare that this Ordinance or any part thereof is repealed or shall be suspended in its operation for any period, and from the date of the publication of such proclamation the said Ordinance or such part thereof as may be specified in the proclamation shall be deemed to be repealed or suspended accordingly.
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Section 3.
SCHEDULES.
THE FIRST SCHEDULE.
LIST OF CRIMES AND OFFENCES.
The following list of crimes and offences is to be construed according to the law existing in the Colony of Hongkong at the date of the alleged crime or offence, whether by common law or by Imperial Statute or local Ordinance made before or after the commencement of this Ordinance.
1. Murder, and attempt and conspiracy to murder.
2. Manslaughter.
3. Wounding with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
4. Counterfeiting and altering money and uttering counterfeit or altered money.
5. Forgery, counterfeiting, and altering, and uttering what is forged or counterfeited or altered.
6. Larceny and embezzlement.
7. Unlawfully receiving stolen property.
8. Obtaining money or goods by false pretences.
9. Crimes by bankrupts against bankruptcy law.
10. Fraud by a bailee, banker, agent, factor, trustee, or director, or member, or public officer of any company made criminal by any law for the time being in force.
HONGKONG.
By His Excellency-in-Council
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By order,
(Signed