Amendment of section 13.
Amendment
of section
(c) by the addition thereto of the following new subsection- *(a) The Governor may appoint fit persons to be respectively Commissioner, Assistant Commissioner, Superintendents, Chief Officers, Chaplains, Medical Officers and such other officers for the service of the prisons as the Governor may think necessary, and may remove such persons from their offices."
3. Section 13 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the insertion after subsection (1) of the following new subsection-
4.
"(1A) Where the Attorney General makes applica tion in writing to the Commissioner of Prisons in respect of a person in custody awaiting trial, the Commissioner of Prisons shall make an order under subsection (1), and the other provisions of that subsection and of rule 208 of the Prison Rules, 1954 (which deals with the reports to be made by the Medical Officer) shall apply, notwith standing that the prisoner is not charged with a capital offence.
Section 23 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the deletion from the second, third and fourth lines of paragraph (4) thereof of the following-
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or refuses or neglects to obey any lawful order, or is guilty of any breach of discipline or any insubordina- tion"*.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 8th day of June, 1955.
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
(Secretariat 48/2961/461)
No. 22 OF 1955.
E assent.
Малько
9th June, 1955-
An Ordinance to amend the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance,
Chapter 238.
1
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Arms and Ammuni- Short title tion (Amendment) Ordinance, 1955, and shall come into operation and com- on a day to be appointed by the Governor by proclamation in the Bencement.
Gazette.
2. The Arms and Ammunition Ordinance (hereinafter Addition referred to as the principal Ordinance) is amended by the of new Insertion after section 18 of the following new section.
(Cap. 238),
"Powers of
Commis
aimer of
Police to
elore arms.
18A. (1) Subject to the provisions for forfeiture contained in sections 31 and 32 the Commissioner of Police may store arms or ammunition which come into the hands of the police.
section 18A.