L.S.
HONG KONG.
No. 11 or 1927.
I assent.
C. CLEMENTI, Governor.
16th September, 1927.
An Ordinance to amend the Asylums Ordi-
nance, 1906.
[16th September, 1927.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Asylums Amend- Short title. ment Ordinance, 1927.
2. The following section is inserted in the Asylums Insertion of Ordinance, 1906, immediately after section 3 thereof and new section is numbered section 4:----
Regulations.
4 in Ordi- nance No. 6
4.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor of 1906. in Council to make regulations for any of the following purposes :——-
(a) to regulate the admission of patients to asylums in cases not otherwise provided for in this Ordinance ;
(b) to regulate the detention and exam- ination of patients in asylums and matters appertaining thereto :
(c) to prescribe forms to be used for the purposes of this Ordinance ;
(d) to provide for any matter which he may consider desirable for the purpose of carry- ing out the objects of this Ordinance.
(2) All regulations made under this Ordi- nance shall be laid on the table of the Legisla- tive Council at the first meeting thereof held after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and if a resolution he passed at the first meeting of the Legisla- tive Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such regulation shall be rescinded or amended in any manner whatso- ever, the said regulation shall, without pre- judice to anything done thereunder, be deemed to be rescinded or amended, as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution.
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