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Accordingly, paragraph (a) of section 2 of this Ordinance
repeals the words "any available sites and buildings" and
substitutes the words "any place or building or portion of
a building".
3.
Under the practice referred to above it was usual to
obtain the sanction of the Governor for each removal of a
prisoner to the Government Civil Hospital. This was unsatis-
-factory in two respects. In the first place, a doubt may be
expressed as to whether the Governor had power to order a pri-
-soner to be removed from a prison to a place which is not a
prison. That point will be met when Ward Thirteen is set
apart as a prison under the present Ordinance. In the second
place,
it seems unnecessary that the Governor should have to
make a special order in each case in a matter which may quite
properly be placed in the discretion of the Superintendent of
Prisons. Again, it has hitherto been the practice for pri son-
-ers to be transferred from Victoria Gaol to Lai Chi Kok Prison,
and vice versa, under the authority of the Superintendent of
Here again a doubt night have been expressed as to
the power of the Superintendent to order such transfers.
Accordingly, a new section 4 which is inserted in the principal
Ordinance by section 3 of this Ordinance gives the Superin-
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-tendent of Prisons clear power to order transfers in both the
above classes of case. That ameriment makes paragraph (3) of
section 2 of the principal Ordinance unnecessary. The paragraph
in question gives the Governor power to make orders to remove
prisoners from one prison to another. That paragraph is there-
section2 of this Ordi-
-fore now repealed by paragraph (b) of secti
-nance.
4.
Section 3 of this Ordinance inserts a new section 4 in
the principal Ordinance, The main effect of the new section
is to give the Superintendent of Prisons power to make the