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Acts relating
to regular or auxiliary forces.
Saving as to
fine fixed by treaty with
No. 3.]
THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1890.
withstanding any enactment to the contrary, to impose imprisonment without hard labour and to reduce the prescribed period thereof or to do either of such acts and in the case of a fine, if it is imposed as in respect of a first offence, to reduce the prescribed amount thereof, and in the case of imprisonment to impose a fine in lieu of imprisonment, shall not apply to any proceedings taken under any Act of Parliament relating to any of Her Majesty's regular or auxiliary forces,
4. Nothing in this Ordinance shall authorize a Magistrate to reduce the amount of a fine where the Ordinance or statute prescribing such amount carries into effect a treaty, convention, or agreement with a Foreign State and such treaty, convention, or agreement stipulates for a fine of a minimum amount.
Saving as to specially enacted procedure.
Use of forms.
First Schedule.
5. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect any special procedure provided in any Ordinance not hereby repealed,
6.—(1.) The forms in the First Schedule to this Ordinance or forms to the like effect, with such variations or additions as circumstances may require, shall be deemed good, valid, and sufficient in law.
(2.) Reference to the forms in the said Schedule is made in the following parts of this Ordinance in connexion with the subjects to which they respectively relate by the insertion in the margin of numbers corresponding to the numbers of the said forms.
Police Magistrates.
Marine Magistrate.
PART 1.
CONSTITUTION OF MAGISTRATES.
7.—(1.) There shall be either one or more Magistrates, who shall be Justices of the Peace by virtue of their office, and shall have and exercise all such powers and jurisdiction as were vested in Police Magistrates before the commencement of this Ordinance, except as altered or repealed by this or any other Ordinance; and whenever by any past Ordinance or statute in force in the Colony any proceeding, act, or thing is authorized to be taken or done by a Justice or Justices of the Peace, the same may be taken or done by one Magistrate.
(2.) The Magistrates now in office are hereby continued therein as fully as if they were appointed under this Ordinance, and the Governor may appoint others from time to time as vacancies occur,
8. There shall be as heretofore a Marine Magistrate, who, without prejudice to any other jurisdiction, power, or authority possessed by him, shall have the power and authority of a Magistrate to hear and determine cases of assault and assault and battery where there is no...