ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
Hong Kong, 24th January.......1935.
REPORT ON ORDINANCE No. ......................................of 1985.
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1. I have examined the accompanying Ordinance. intituled an
Ordinance to amend the Asylums Ordinance, 1906, and I
am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not
contrary to the Governor's instructions.
2. Section 15(2) of the principal Ordinance (as
enacted by section 8 of the Asylums Amendment Ordinance,
1927) provided only for committal by order of the
Governor to an asylum of prisoners under sentence who
were certified by the prison Medical Oficer to be of
unsound mind.
3. Remand prisoners, detention prisoners and persons
committed to the house of detention as vagrants were
thus left outside the scope of this provision, as well
as prisoners and persons de tained who showed signs of
insanity but could not be definitely certified as insane.
4. This amending Ordinance remedies the se defects.
5. In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His
Excellency the Governor may properly assent in the name
of His Majesty and on His behalf.
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Attorney General.