ORDINANCES Nos. 1 AND 2 OF 1873.
Sheriff.
Minimum Punishments.
THE THIRD SCHEDULE.
Scale of Allowances for Disbursements under Section 12.
For conveying defendant to gaol from place of arrest, per mile,
$ 0.50
For each man left in possession, (including his board), per diem,
1.50
When service of process is required to be made at a distance of more than one mile from the
Supreme Court, for every mile or part of a mile beyond that distance,
0.50
[In force from 1st March, 1873, under Proclamation 15th February, 1873: repealed by Ordinance No. 22 of 1882.]
NOTE.-For resolution of the Legislative Council of the 25th August, 1875, as to scale
of stamp duties in the 2nd schedule, see Gazette 28th of the same month.
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No. 2 of 1873.
An Ordinance to abolish Minimum Punishments on Summary Title.
Convictions before Magistrates.
[11th February, 1873.]
WHEREAS by various Ordinances of the Colony a minimum as well
Preamble.
as a maximum amount of fine or term of imprisonment is prescribed by way of punishment for certain offences triable summarily before the Magistrates; and whereas it is expedient to confer upon the Magistrates the power of awarding, in their discretion, a lesser, and in certain cases, a nominal punishment for such offences: Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
Minimum punishments on summary convictions.
Whenever any person shall be convicted upon a summary trial before a Magistrate, of an offence against the provisions of any Ordinance or law now in force in the Colony whereby a minimum amount of fine or term of
abolished.
imprisonment is prescribed by way of punishment for such offence, it shall be lawful for the Magistrate, if he shall in his discretion think fit, to award a lesser amount of fine or term of imprisonment than that prescribed by way of minimum punishment as aforesaid, or to award, in certain cases, a merely nominal punishment, anything in such Ordinance or law contained to the
contrary notwithstanding.
NOTE. This Ordinance is repealed as from the 1st January, 1891, by Ordinance No. 15 of 1890, subject to H. M.'s right of disallowance.