CAP. 237]
Protection to magistrate, etc., acting under the Ordinance.
Forms.
Schedule.
Foreign Offenders Detention.
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9. If any action is brought against a magistrate, gaoler, police officer, consular officer, or any other person whomsoever for anything done in obedience to or in pursuance of any warrant or order issued under the provisions of this Ordinance, the proof of such warrant or order shall be a sufficient answer to such action; and the defendant, on such proof as aforesaid, shall be entitled to a verdict or judgment in his favour, and shall also be entitled to his full costs of the action.
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10. The forms in the Schedule or forms to the like effect, with such variations and additions as circumstances may require, may be used for the purposes therein indicated, and instruments in those forms shall (as regards the form thereof) be valid and sufficient.
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SCHEDULE.
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FORM 1.
GOVERNOR'S WARRANT TO MAGISTRATES.
The Foreign Offenders Detention Ordinance. (Chapter 237 of the Revised Edition of Ordinances)
HONG KONG.
By His Excellency
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Governor and Commander-in-Chief of this Colony and its dependencies.
To
Magistrates.
Whereas requisition has been duly made to me pursuant to the abovementioned Ordinance, for the apprehension and temporary detention in custody of one
now in this Colony, charged
with [or convicted of] having committed the crime of within the territory of
You are hereby required to govern yourselves accordingly, and to aid in apprehending the said offender and in committing him to prison for the purpose of his being detained in custody according to the provisions of the abovementioned Ordinance, and for so doing this shall be your warrant.
Given under my hand and the Public Seal of the Colony, at Victoria, Hong Kong, this day of
(Signed)
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Governor.
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