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Repeal of section 4.

Amend- ment of section 17.

Amend-

ment of

section

17A.

Amend-

ment of

Bection 18.

Addition

of bew

section 18A.

3. Section 4 of the principal Ordinance is repealed.

4.

Section 17 of the principal Ordinance is amended by inserting, after "conviction", the following-

5.

"upon indictment".

Section 17A of the principal Ordinance is amended by inserting, after "conviction", the following== |||

"upon indictment".

6. Section 18 of the principal Ordinance is amended in subsection (1) by deleting "one thousand dollars and to imprison- ment for six months"and substituting the following-

"two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for three years".

7. The principal Ordinance is amended by adding, after section 18, the following new section—

"Possession or intro- duction of prohibited articles by prison officers.

18A. (1) Except where authorized by rules made under section 25 or by the Commissioner, any officer of the Prisons Department or other person employed in the prisons who-

(a) while in a prison or proceeding iuta or out of a prison, has in his possession, whether on his person or in any receptacle in his custody, any prohibited article:

(b) knowingly conveys or permits or causes to be conveyed into or out of a prison, any prohibited article in any vehicle or other means of transport which is driven by him or in his charge or in which he is a pas- senger:

(c) brings, throws or otherwise introduces or causes to be brought, thrown or otherwise introduced into or out of a prison, any prohibited article:

(d) takes any prohibited article to or from any prisoner whether such prisoner is in a pri- son or in custody outside a prison; (e) deposits any prohibited article in any place whether in a prison or outside a prison, with the intent that it shall come into the possession of a prisoner.

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shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of two thousand dollars and to imprisonment for three years.

(2) In subsection (1), "prohibited article" means any tire-arm. ammunition. weapon. instrument, ex- plosive, barmful or deleterious substance, intoxicat- ing liquor, opium or other drug, tobacco, money, clothing, provisions, letter, paper or book.".

Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 13th day of February, 1974.

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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 und correctly printed copy of the said bill.

Инчает

Clerk to the Legislative Council.