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TAM

the commencement of this Ordinance;

ct or any thing done by the said corporation before the encement of this Ordinance.

the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 21st day of June,

Ma

Clark to the Legistative Council.

printed impression has been carefully compared By me bill, and is found by me to be'a 'true and correctly py of the said bitr.

la

Clerk to the Legislative Council"

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TOC EING

No. 49 of 1978

I assent.

M M. Sala

5th

Governor.

Štát July, 1978.

Am Ordinance to amend the Detention Ceatres Ordinance,

[7th July, 1978)

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 Detention Centres (Amend- short GOŁ ment) Ordinance 1978.

2. Section 5 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting Amendment of subsection (2) and substituting the following-

°(2) A person taken to a detention centre under subsection (1) may be detained-

(a) in the case of a person stated in the detention order to be apparently of or over 21 years of age, until the expiration of 12 months from the date of the detention order, or 3 months from the date of his being arrested under the recall order, whichever is the later;

(b) in the case of a person stated in the detention order to be apparently under that age, until the expiration of 6 months from the date of the detention order, or 3 months from the dale of his being arrested under the recall order, whichever is the later.".

Beton 6.

(CAp. 239.)