HONGKONG.
No. 20 or 1917.
I assent to this Onlinned.
LS
F. II. MAY, Governor.
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14th September, 1917.
Au Ordinance to amend the Special Police Re- serve Ordinance, 1914, and to remove doubts as to the effect of the proclamation made nuder section 10 of the said Ordinance on the third day of September, 1915.
[14th September, 1917.]
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 Hongkong Police Short title Reserve Ordinance, 1917, and shall be read and construed and con- as one with the Special Police Reserve Ordinance, 1914, struction. hereinafter called the principal Ordinace, and this Onli- Onlinance uance and the said Ordinance may ha eitel together as the No. 27 of Hongkong Police Reserve Ordinances, 1914 and 1917.
1914.
2. The title of the force raised under and regulated by Alteration the Ilougkong Police Reserve Ordinances, 1914 und 1917, of the title shall be the Hongkong Police Reserve.
of the force.
3.-(1.) It shall be lawful for the Captain Superinten- Regulations. dent of Police to make, subject to the approval of the Governor in Council, such regulations as he may deem expedient for the general government and discipline of the Hongkong Police Reserve.
(2.) Any member of the Hongkong Police Reserve who commits a breach of any such regulation, or who refusea or neglects to obey any lawful order of any of his superior officers, or who is guilty of any other breach of discipline or neglect of duty, may be ordered by the Captain Super- intendea of Police to pay a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars or to undergo confinement to barracks for any period not exceeding seven days.
(3.) If any person who shall have been ordere ro pay any such fine fails to pay such fine within such time as may be prescribed by the Captain Superintenlout of Palice he shall be liable to undergo confinement to barracks for any perial not exceeling seven days: Pro- vided that if such persou shall at any time while under- going snel confinemear to barracks pay in full to the pre- scribed officer the fine which be was ordered to pay he shall theranpon be released from such continement,
(1.) If any confinement to barracks is ordered under any of the provisions of this auction it shall be lawful for the Captain Superintendent of Police to direct in what place and ander what conditions such confinement shall tako place.
(5) If any person who has been ordered to undergo confinement to barracks under any of the provisions of this section escapes from such confinement, or refuses or neglects to obey any orders of the Captain Superintendent of Police with respect to his conduct during such confinement to barracks, he shall be liable upon sum:uary conviction before a magistrate to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any terim not exceeding aix monibs,
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