Enclosure/
HONGKONG.
No. 4 of 1922.
•
T
Hour, Coin
I assent to this Ordinance.
72. Stubbs
Governor.
24th February, 1922.
An Ordinance to provide for police supervision
of certain persons.
[24th February, 1922.]
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 Police Super- Short title. vision Ordinance, 1922.
2. In this Ordinance, "crime" means any felony, or Interpreta- any offence punishable as a misdemeanour under the tion. Coinage Offences Ordinance, 1865, or any offence under 31 & 33 Viet. sections 46 or 75 of the Larceny Ordinance, 1865, or the c. 112, s. 20. offence of conspiracy to defraud,
Ordinances Nos, 7 of 1885, and 5 of 1863.
3.-(1.) Where any person is convicted summarily or Police
on indictment of a crime, and a previous conviction of a supervision crime is proved against him, it shall be lawful for the border of magistrate or judge, as the ense may be, to make, in judge.
Diagistrate or addition to any other penalty that he may inflict for the 34 & 36 Vict. second of such crimes, an order in Form No. 1 in the c. 112, 9. §, schedule to this Ordinance, that such person shall Form No. 1.
be subject to police supervision for a period not exceed- ing two years in the case of a summary conviction, or seven years in the case of a conviction on indictment.
(2.) Whenever any such person is not imprisoned on conviction of the second of such crimes, the date of the commencement of the period of police supervision ordered shall be the date of such conviction, and shall be indorsed on the said order by the magistrate or the Registrar of the Supreme Court, as the case may be.
(3.) Whenever any such person is imprisoned on con- viction of the second of such crimes, the date of the commencement of the period of police supervision ordered shall be the date of the termination of his imprisonment, and shall be indorsed on the said order by the Superintendent of Prisons,
196