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ORDER AND CLEANLINESS.
ORDINANCE No. 2 OF 1867.
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AN Ordinance to make further provision for the Maintenance
A.D. 1867.
of Order and Cleanliness within the Colony.
Ordinance No. 9 of 1867.
[1st July, 1867.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the
Legislative Council thereof, as follows:--
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Order and Cleanliness Ordinance, 1867.
Power to
Governor to appropriate certain proportion of fines for
rewards to Police and informers.
2. It shall be lawful for 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 think fit from time to time 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.
3.(1.) It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council from time to time to frame such regulations, to be enforced by such fines and penalties as to him may seem fit, for the removal of night soil and the depositing of rubbish and for the more effectual carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance.
(2.) All such regulations shall be duly published in The Gazette, and
from and after such publication shall have the same force and effect as if the same had been enacted by an Ordinance duly passed for that
purpose.
Making of
regulations
for removal of night soil,
etc.
Causeway Bay G. N. 209 5.5.fr. 13 June 18
Power to
order whipping of juvenile male
offender in
certain cases.
4. Every male person who, subsequently to the commencement of this Ordinance, is 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 time of the commission or attempted commission of such offence, does not, in the opinion of the court before which he is brought or appears, exceed the age of sixteen years, shall, on conviction thereof, be liable, by the sentence of such court, to be once or twice whipped, either instead of or in addition to any other
See Ordinance
punishment which may now be inflicted for such offence.
No. 7 of 1901.
5. From and after the 1st day of August, 1867, it shall not be lawful
Licensing of
for any Chinese to act as a money-changer in this Colony unless he has
Chinese
previously obtained a licence to do so from the Registrar General, which
money-changers.
1883,
461:
185.