STOCKS.
No. 31 of 1921.
No. 31 of 1921. 2645
An Ordinance to regulate the imposition of the penalty of stocks.
No.31 of 1921.
[16th December, 1921.]
Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Stocks Ordinance, 1921.
Short title.
2. In this Ordinance, "the court" means the Supreme Court.
Interpretation.
3. Every male person who is convicted summarily or on indictment of an offence under sections 44 or 45 of the Offences against the Person Ordinance, 1865, or under sections 3, 4, 8, 9, 11 or 17 of the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897, may be sentenced by the magistrate or the court to be publicly exposed in the stocks for any period not exceeding six hours in addition to any other punishment to which such person is liable: Provided always that in the case of a summary conviction no such sentence shall be carried into effect until after the expiration of seven clear days from the date of such conviction.
Penalty of stocks may be imposed for certain offences.
Nos. 2 of 1865, and 4 of 1897.
4.-(1) For the purpose of carrying any such sentence into effect, it shall be lawful for the magistrate or for the court, as the case may be, to issue an order in the form in the Schedule requiring the Superintendent of Prisons to deliver to the Captain Superintendent of Police any person who has been sentenced under this Ordinance.
Order by magistrate or court to enable sentences under this Ordinance to be carried into effect.
(2) Any such order shall further require the Captain Superintendent of Police to return such person to the Superintendent of Prisons, and the Superintendent of Prisons to receive such person from the Captain Superintendent of Police, after such sentence has been carried into effect, for the purpose of serving or continuing to serve any other or further sentence which shall have been imposed upon him.
(3) Any such order addressed to the Captain Superintendent of Police may be executed by any police officer, and any such order addressed to the Superintendent of Prisons...
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.