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Short Tirle

Juvenile Offenders

Ordinance.

(Chapter 226). Magistrates Ordinance.

(Chapter 227).

SCHEDULE,

CONSEQUENTIAL AMENDMENTS,

Amendment

[.3.]

Section 19 is amended by the deletion from paragraph (e) thereof of the word "whipped" and the substitution therefor of the word "caned".

Sections 92, 93 and 116 (and the marginal notes thereto) are amended by the deletion therefrom of the wordi ́, "whipped", "whipping" and "dogging" wherever they occur therein and by the substitution of the word ““, "caned" for the word "whipped" and of the word d "caning" for the words “whipping" and "dogging", as the case may be.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 7th day of October, 1959.

FONG KON

No. 36 of 1959.

Deputy Clerk of Councils,

(Secretariat GR7/2611/464)

I assent.

а

Canon Burgess

Officer Administering the Government,

22nd October, 1959.

An Ordinance to amend the law as to the liability of occupiers and others for injury or damage resulting to persons or goods lawfully on any land or other property from dangers due to the state of the property or to things done or omitted to be done there, and for purposes connected therewith.

[1st April, 1960.]

Bs it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice

and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows-

1. (1) This Ordinance may be cited as the Occupiers Liability Short title Ordinance, 1959.

(2) This Ordinance shall come into operation on the 1st day

of April, 1960.

Liability in tort.

and coni- MTOCMEDt,

2. (1) The rules enacted by sections 3 and 4 shall have effect, Preliminary.

in place of the rules of the common law, to regulate the duty which

an occupier of premises owes to his visitors in respect of dangers due

to the state of the premises or to things done or omitted to be done on them.