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Sir C. Parkinson.
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Note on Hong Kong Draft Naval
Volunteer and Defence Ordinance.
Sir C. Bottomley
Sir J. Shuckburgh.
Permt. U.S. of S.
Parly. U.S. of S.
Secretary of State.
DRAFT. f
Schedule, Paragraph 3(a). Assuming
that it is desirable to limit the punishment
anamdification of
of death to murder and mutiny,/Section 52
of the Naval Dounline
Ace-
is not the right place in which to appropriati
Cousse
describe the penalty.
Thisection
merely contains a list of punishments
which may be awarded in order of severity,
and Sections 2 et seq. actually specify
the punishment. In Sections 2, 3 and 5
the punishment for acting traitorously
(without alternative is death (Con1;];
2 drabs
FURTHER ACTION.
and the effect of the
amendment proposed to Section 52(1) would
be to render these crimes unpunishable.
The same difficulty will arise with regard
to penal servitude where it is the only
if
punishment, since it is to be struck out of
as
1
proposed,
Section 52
52 by paragraph 3(b) of the
Schedule.
Schedule, Paragraph 4(c) proposes
that