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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE.
HONG KONG
No. 40 of 1949.
L.S.
I assent.
Short title.
Ordinance No. 5 of 1922.
Amendment
of para-
A. G. GRANTHAM,
Governor.
1st September, 1949.
An Ordinance further to amend the Emergency Regulations
Ordinance, 1922.
[2nd September, 1949.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Emergency Regu- lations (Amendment) (No. 2) Ordinance, 1949, and shall be read as one with the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922, hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance.
2. Paragraph (n) of sub-section (2) of section 2 of the principal Ordinance is hereby amended by adding the words "or against any law in force in the Colony" after the word section (2) "regulations" in the second line thereof.
graph (n) of sub-
of section 2
of the
principal
Ordinance.
Repeal and
3.
Section 3 of the principal Ordinance is hereby repealed replacement and replaced by the following section :-
of section 3
of the principal
Ordinance.
"Penalties.
3. (1) Without prejudice to the powers con- ferred by section 2, regulations made hereunder may provide for the punishment of any offence (whether such offence is a contravention of the regulations or an offence under any law applicable to the Colony) with such penalties and sanctions (including the penalty of death), and may contain such provisions in relation to forfeiture disposal and retention of any article connected in any way with such offence and
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