1584 Offences, Payment of officers. + ORDINANCES Nos. 2 AND 3 OF 1881. Census.
1 Penal Ordinances Amendment.
7. Any person who, without lawful excuse, wilfully refuses or neglects to fill up and sign according to the truth of the case, or to alter or amend in any particular, if required to do so by the enumerator, any schedule so left at his house or place of residence; or to deliver the same to the enumerator or other officer when required to do so; or to furnish information to any enumerator, or to permit any enumerator to obtain information on board his vessel; or to answer any such question as aforesaid put to him by any enumerator or other officer, shall, on conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars; and any person who wilfully makes, signs, or delivers, or causes to be made, signed, or delivered, any false return as to any of the matters specified in this Ordinance; or who wilfully obstructs any enumerator or person engaged in the execution of duties required of them under this Ordinance, shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars.
Any enumerator appointed under this Ordinance who knowingly makes a false return of any of the matters specified herein, shall be liable, on conviction before a Magistrate, to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.
Fines imposed under this section shall be recoverable in the same way as fines imposed on convictions under Ordinance 16 of 1875.
8. The Governor in Council shall award such remuneration as he thinks fit to officers and enumerators appointed under this Ordinance.
No. 3 of 1881.
Title.
Preamble.
Repeal.
An Ordinance entitled "The Penal Ordinances Amendment Ordinance, 1881."
WHEREAS it is expedient to amend the penal laws in force in this Colony: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. The enactments described in the schedule to this Ordinance are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the schedule: Provided that such repeal shall not affect the past operation of any such enactment or anything done or suffered thereunder,