A.D. 1889.]
STONECUTTERS ISLAND,
ORDINANCE No. 4 OF 1889.
[No. 4.
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AN ORDINANCE to make provision with respect to Stonecutters' Island.
Ordinance No. 18 of 1889,
[13th March, 1889.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Stonecutters' Island Ordinance, 1889.
2. In this Ordinance “Guard” includes any soldier or sentry belonging to Her Majesty's Regular Troops who is employed on military duty in Stonecutters' Island.
3.-(1.) No person shall land or be upon Stonecutters' Island unless he is the bearer of a written order for the purpose duly granted to him by the Colonial Secretary or by the Officer in Command of Her Majesty's Regular Troops in this Colony or unless he is an officer or soldier of Her Majesty's Regular Troops employed on military duty in the said Island or a Police officer or constable.
(2.) Every person who lands or is found on the said Island contrary to this Ordinance shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding three months.
(3.) An order granted to any contractor employed either by the Surveyor General or by the Commanding Royal Engineer shall cover all Chinese labourers specifically mentioned in such order actually employed on work in the said Island.
4. When any person lands or is found on the said Island, any guard may require such person to show his order for the purpose, and if such person, on being so required, does not produce and show his order, or if the said guard suspects that the order produced and shown to him is not an order duly granted to such person or not sufficient authority for such person to be then upon the said Island, he may arrest such person forthwith and deliver him into the charge of a constable or officer of the Police Force.
5. The Governor may from time to time, by Proclamation published in The Gazette, exempt any portion or portions of the Island to be defined by such Proclamation from the operation of this Ordinance, and may from time to time vary or revoke any such Proclamation.
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