L. S.
HONG
KONG.
No. 26 of 1927.
I assent.
C. CLEMENTI, Governor.
23rd December, 1927.
An Ordinance to amend the Prisons Ordinance,
1899.
[23rd December, 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 Prisons Amend- Short title. ment Ordinance, 1927.
2. Section 2 of the Prisons Ordinance, 1899, is amended as follows:-
(a) by the repeal of the words “ any available sites and buildings in paragraph (1) thereof and the substitution therefor of the words "
"any place or building or portion of a building"; () by the repeal of paragraph (3) thereof.
Amendment of Ordinance No. 4 of 1899, s. 2.
3. The Prisons Ordinance, 1899, is amended by the Insertion of insertion of the following section immediately after sec- new section 4 tion 3 :-
Commitment
4.—(1) A prisoner sentenced to imprison- and removal ment or committed to prison on remand pen- of prisoners. 4 & 5 Geo. 5, ing trial or otherwise may be lawfully con- c. 58, s. 17. fined in any prison to which this Ordinance
applies.
Ordinance
No. 6 of
1906.
(2) Prisoners shall be confined in such prisons as the Superintendent of Prisons may direct and may on like direction be removed therefrom during the term of their imprison- ment to any other prison.
(3) The Superintendent of Prisons on being satisfied that a prisoner is suffering from a disease and cannot be properly treated in the prison, or that he should undergo and desires to undergo a surgical operation which cannot properly be performed in the prison, may order that the prisoner be taken to the Govern- ment Civil Hospital or other suitable place for the purpose of treatment or the operation and while absent from the prison in pursuance of such order the prisoner shall be deemed to be in legal custody.
(4) Prisoners of unsound mind shall be dealt with in the manner prescribed by the Asylums Ordinance, 1906.
in Ordinance No. 4 of 1899.
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