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Amendment of section 31.

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false and which tends to give rise to apprehension for the safety of any person or property shall be guilty of the offence of public mischief and shall be liable-

(a) on conviction on indictment, to a fine of fifty thousand dollars and to imprisonment for five years; and

(6) on summary conviction, to a fine of twenty thousand dollars and to imprisonment for two years.

(2) Where it is proved that the person charged with an offence under this section published or gave false information, it shall, until the contrary is proved. be presumed that he knew such information to be false.".

Section 31 of the principal Ordinance is amended in sub- section (6)

(a) in paragraph (0) by deleting whether or not he is a

member of the Essential Services Corps.";

(6) in paragraph (0) by deleting, after the semicolon, "and"; (c) in paragraph () by deleting the full stop and substituting

a semicolon;

(d) by inserting, after paragraph (†), the following-

(Cap. 197.

"(A) a member of the Essential Services Corps in possession of an identity card issued under the Essential Services Corps (Identity Cards) Regulations;

(D) a member of the Immigration Service: and (m) an employee of the Ministry of Defence in possession of a valid Army Department Pass.”.

Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 26th day of April. 1972.

Clerk to the Legislative Council,

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.

Clerk to the Legislative Council.

HONG KONG

No. 25 OF 1972

I assent.

Mi

Governor.

27th April, 1972.

An Ordinance to amend the District Court Ordinance and to

make other consequential amendments.

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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 District Court (Amendment) Ordinance 1972, and shall come into operation on a day to be appointed by the Governor by notice in the Gazette.

2. Section 17 of the principal Ordinance is amended in paragraph (1) by deleting "fourteen days" and substituting the following

"three months",

3. Section 30 of the principal Ordinance is amended, in subsection (2), by inserting after "only" the following—

" whether or not the offence was included in the order transferring the charge or complaint to the Court".

Lekse.

Short title and commencerment.

Amendment of section 17. (CR 5)

Amendment of section 30.