ORDINANCES Nos. 19 AND 20 of 1844.
Harbour Regulation.
Martial Law.
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regulations to be enforced by such fines and penalties as to him shall seem fit for the better regulation of the harbour and surrounding waters of the Island of Hongkong, and that all such rules and regulations after being duly published in the newspaper or Gazette used at the time for Government advertisements, shall respectively have the force and effect of any ordinance which might be passed by the said Governor with the advice of the said Legislative Council.
[Repealed by Ordinance No. 11 of 1845.]
Island of Hong Kong; such laws and regulations to have the same force and effect as any ordinance passed by the said Governor with the advice of the Legislative Council.
No. 20 of 1844.
An Ordinance to empower the Governor of Hongkong with the advice of the Executive Council thereof in cases of exigency, to place any Districts or Public or Military Stations of the said Island under Martial Law.
[26th November, 1844.]
WHEREAS, it has been found that from the vicinity of the said Island to the mainland of China a facility is afforded to armed and predatory parties of landing in considerable numbers on the said Island of Hongkong: And whereas from the yet unformed state of the Colony a considerable Police force is not of sufficient ability to afford Her Majesty's subjects resident thereon adequate protection.
1. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by the Governor of Hongkong with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof that from and after the passing of this Ordinance it shall and may be lawful to and for the said Governor with the advice of the Executive Council of the said Island when and so often as the exigency of the case may seem to him and them to require such procedure, to declare by any public proclamation or proclamations made in the usual manner and form that in and throughout any certain district or in any public or military station of the said Island martial law shall prevail, or that such place shall be under the control and government of such law by the force and effect of such proclamation.
2. And be it further enacted and ordained that any such proclamation shall from and after the publication thereof have the full force and effect as of an ordinance passed by the said Governor with the advice of the Legislative Council of the said Island.
Title.
Preamble.
Power to Governor with the advice of the Executive Council to declare any district or public or military post of the said Island to be under martial law by proclamation.
Proclamation to have the effect of an ordinance.
[Disallowance Proclaimed, 19th August, 1845.]
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