2132 ORDINANCES Nos. 15 AND 16 OF 1887 .
Hongkong and Shanghai Bank. Whipping.
Continuance
for a further 1. The Company shall continue incorporated and shall carry on the
term of 21 business of banking under the provisions and conditions contained in
years.
The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Ordinance as amended by Ordinance
No. 21 of 1882 for the further term of twenty- one years commencing
from the 14th day of August, 1887 .
Ordinances 5 2. This Ordinance and The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Ordinance
of 1866, 21 of
1882, and this as amended by Ordinance No. 21 of 1882 shall be read together and
Ordinance to
be read as one construed as one Ordinance.
Ordinance .
Suspending 3. This Ordinance shall not come into operation unless and until
Mause.
the Officer Administering the Government notifies by proclamation that
it is Her Majesty's pleasure not to disallow the same and thereafter it
shall come into operation upon such day as the Officer Administering
the Government shall notify by the same or any other proclamation .
[ Confirmation proclaimed 16th August, 1887.]
No. 16 of 1887.
An Ordinance empowering the Courts to award Whipping
a further punishment for certain Crimes.
[ 24th June, 1887. ]
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the
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Legislative Council thereof, as follows :
Power to 1. If any person shall be convicted of a crime who at the time ofthe
award punish
ment of commission thereof shall have been armed with any offensive weapon or
whipping in
cases herein instrument, or
named.
No. 12 of If any person shall be convicted
1865. ]
7 and 8 Geo. (a. ) of any felony not punishable with death , committed after
IV, ch. 28,
sec. 2. two previous convictions for felony, and the sentence for
each of which has been at least six months ' imprison
ment with hard labour, or
(b. ) of any crime under sections 32 , 33 , 34. 35 and 36 of Or
dinance 7 of 1865 , or
(c. ) of piracy, or
(d. ) of indecent assault,