of the Gad
was sometimes interfered with in cases where adequate punishment
could not be lawfully inflicted
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Prisoners for breach of Gaol Regulations, just before the Expiration of the term of their imprisonment; and the explosed Ordinance remedies this defect.
3.
I enclose the A
on the Ordinance.
report on the
Attorney General's
I have the honour to be,
Sir, Your Most Obedient
humble Servant,
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Report on Ordinance N°2 of 1878 entitled "An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hongkong with the
advice of the Legislative Council._____ thereof, to amend Ordinance. N.I of 1983.*
This Ordinance was
passed as it's preamble to the power of
as
imports to remove doublo the Gaol authorities to detain a prisoner for punishment ofor breach of Gaol regulations or of prison dissipline after his original sentence had expired.
on several occasions
It
found that
prisoners had
wilfully
-misconducted themselves just before the
the
expiration of the
term of their
imprisonment and it was doubted whether punishments directed to be inflicted under the authority of Sections X1 and XII of Ordinance No 4 of 1863 could legally be carried out after the expiration of the original sentence. I my opinion the Royal assent may