Enclosure No. 2.
ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
Hongkong...24th.Dane,bax,1927.
REPORT ON ORDINANCE No...2.5...
...........of 1927
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1.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled an Ordinance
to amend the Prisons Ordinance, 1899, and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Gover-
-nor's instructions.
2. It has been the practice for many years to transfer to
the Government Civil Hospital prisoners who, in the opinion
f the prison in which such prisoners
of the medical of
officed f
are confined, cannot properly be treated in the prison hos-
-pital.
There is now a special ward, Ward Thirteen in the
Government Civil Hospital, which is self-contained and is
arranged as a prison. This ward has however, not been set
apart as a prison under the Prisons Ordinance, 1899. Recently,
therefore, it was proposed to make an order setting this ward
apart as a prison, but doubts were raised as to whether the
power conferred on the Government by section 2 of the Prisons
Ordinance, 1899, included a power to set apart a portion of a building, because the wording of paragraph (1) of that
section was,
"to set apart any available sites and buildings".