1984 Ed.]
Magistrates (Forms) Rules
(CAP. 227
C 17
[Subsidiary]
Iss. 20 & 23.1
HONG KONG.
FORM 5
Warrant of committal for safe custody during an adjournment of the hearing
IN THE MAGISTRATE'S COURT AT
To each and all of the police officers of the said Colony and to the Commissioner of Correctional Services.
day of 19
On the information was laid before the undersigned, a magistrate of the said Colony for that [here state shortly the matter of the information];
and the hearing of the same having been adjourned to day of 19 at o'clock in the noon, it is necessary that the said should in the meantime be kept in safe custody:
These are, therefore, to command you, the said police officers, in Her Majesty's name, forthwith to convey the said to a prison [or some other place of security], and there to deliver him to the Commissioner of Correctional Services, with this precept; and you, the said Commissioner, to receive the said into your custody in a prison [or some other place of security], and there safely to keep him until day of 19; when you, the said police officer, are hereby required to convey and have him at the time and place to which the said hearing is so adjourned as aforesaid, at o'clock in the noon of the same day, before me or such magistrate as may then be there, to answer further to the said information and to be further dealt with according to law, unless you shall be otherwise ordered in the meantime.
Dated this day of 19
[L.S.]
Magistrate.
FORM 6
[ss. 8, 20, 23, 31, 63, 64 & 65.]
(WITH SURETIES)
Recognizance conditioned for appearance
IN THE MAGISTRATE'S COURT AT
HONG KONG
We, the undersigned of , of , of and severally acknowledge ourselves to owe to Our Sovereign Lady the Queen the several sums following, namely, the said as principal the sum of and the said and as sureties the sum of each, to be levied on our several goods, lands, and tenements if the said fails in the condition hereon endorsed.
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Signed (where not taken orally)