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person to be imprisoned in the event of non-payment of
the fine. Provided that a reduction or cancellation
of a fine is in accordance with a process contem-
plated by the Law, or, as the Governor of Hong Kong
says at (1), is a judicial act, I do not consider
that Colonial Regulation 278 is strictly applicable.
I should, however, regard this Regulation as applica-
ble to cases in which fines were subsequently reduced
or remitted merely on compassionate grounds or for
reasons of convenience, and I do not consider that a
Magistrate or other officer of the Court should be
empowered to reduce or remit fines in such cases.
As regards the Governor's remark that the
Accountant General is exercising the powers of
remission conferred by General Orders upon the
Treasurer, I should have thought that this was wrong,
and that, in the division of functions resulting from
the new system, it should be the Financial Secretary,
not the Accountant General, on whom these powers
would devolve when the Treasurership was abolished.
A.1. Harding
Director of Colonial Audit.
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