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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
3. The object of this Bill is to amend the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922, so as to clarify-
4.
(a) that the death penalty and other sanctions may be imposed
(clause 3); and
(b) that it has always been the law that such emergency regula-
tions could over-ride the ordinary law (clause 4).
The opportunity has been taken to impose the control of Legisla- tive Council over regulations providing for the death penalty. (See sub- section (3) of the new section 3 proposed by clause 3 of the Bill). The opportunity has also been taken to amplify paragraph (n) of sub-section (2) of section 2 (See clause 2) so as to provide that by regulations provision may be made for the apprehension trial and punishment of persons offending against other law as well as against emergency regulations.
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J. B. GRIFFIN,
Attorney General.
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