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HONG KONG.
No. 38 of 1932.
I assent.
W. PEEL,
L.S.
Governor.
2nd December, 1932.
An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to
Prisons.
[2nd December, 1932.]
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 Ordinance, Short title. 1932.
2. The Governor may make orders for any of the Ordering following purposes:-
(1) to set apart any place or building or portion of a building for the purpose of a prison;
(2) to discontinue the use of any prison and appropriate the site and buildings thereof to any other lawful purpose;
(3) to appoint fit persons to be respectively super- intendents of prisons, assistant superintendents, chaplains, medical officers and such subordinate officers for the service. of prisons as the Governor may think necessary, and to remove such persons from their offices.
of certain matters in relation to
prisons.
to be
3. The sites and buildings and prisons known as Victoria Victoria Gaol, Lai Chi Kok Prison and the Female Prison respectively, Gaol, etc., and also that part of the Government Civil Hospital known as prisons. the Prison Ward, shall be prisons duly set apart under section 2.
of prisoners.
4. (1) A prisoner sentenced to imprisonment or Commitment committed to prison on remand pending trial or otherwise and removal may be lawfully confined in any prison to which this Ordinance 4 & 5 Gen. 5, applies.
(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 imprisonment 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 a prison, or that he should undergo and desires to undergo a surgical operation which cannot properly be
c. 58, s. 17.