ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1866.
Order and Cleanliness.
No. 8 of 1866.
An Ordinance to make further Provision for the Maintenance of Order and Cleanliness within the Colony of Hongkong.
[16th August, 1866.]
WHEREAS it is expedient to make further provision for the maintenance of order and cleanliness in the Colony of Hongkong: Be it enacted by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. It shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor to apply a certain proportion not exceeding three-fourths, of all fines and penalties recovered in any Court to the payment of such rewards, bounties and gratuities as he may from time to time award to any member of the Police Force or to any constable for meritorious conduct, zeal displayed, or injury sustained in the execution of his duty or to such private persons or informers, as the Governor may deem deserving of being rewarded for assisting in the detection of crime, or the apprehension of offenders.
2. It shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor in Council, from time to time, to frame such regulations to be enforced by such fines and penalties, as to him shall seem fit, for the more effectual carrying out of this Ordinance. Such regulations shall be duly published in the Government Gazette, and from and after such publication to have the same force and effect as if the same had been enacted by an Ordinance duly passed to that effect.
Preamble.
Power given to the Governor to appropriate a certain amount of fines for the payment of rewards to the Police and to informers.
Power given to the Governor to frame regulations.
3. Section 2 of Ordinance No. 6 of 1862 is hereby amended by the addition of the words, "with or without hard labor" immediately after the words "three calendar months" in the fourth line of the said section.
Ordinance No. 6 of 1862 amended.
4. Section 21 of Ordinance No. 9 of 1862 is hereby amended by substituting for the words "three months" at the end of the said section, the words "six months with or without hard labor.”
Ordinance No. 9 of 1862 amended.
5. Every male person who, subsequently to the commencement of this Ordinance, shall be charged with having committed, or having attempted to commit, or with having been an aider, abettor, counsellor, or procurer, in the commission of any offence which now is or hereafter may be by law deemed or declared to be simple larceny, or punishable as simple larceny, and whose age at the period of the commission or attempted commission of such offence, shall not, in the opinion of the Court before whom he shall be brought or appear, exceed the age of sixteen years, shall on conviction thereof whether summarily or otherwise be liable by the sentence of such Court to be once or twice privately whipped, either instead of, or in addition to any other punishment which may now be inflicted for such offence: Provided that such sentence shall specify the number of strokes which shall in no case exceed twenty, and provided that the instrument used shall be a rattan.
Juvenile offenders to be privately whipped in certain cases.