Captain Superintendent to be a Justice of the Peace in
relation to matters of Police.
Officers and Constables to be examined.
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And the Captain Superintendent shall, during his tenure of the office, have and exercise all the powers of a Justice of the Peace with regard to the Police Force or any member or members thereof.
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VIII. Inspectors and other subordinate Officers and Constables shall before appoint- ment be examined by the Captain Superintendent and Colonial Surgeon and having been so examined and approved of shall before a Police Magistrate of the Colony and answer the questions and subscribe and take the oath or make the declaration contained in the Schedule bereto annexed marked B.
IX. Every Inspector or other subordinate Officer and Constable to be appointed shall engage and hind himself to serve in the Police Force for the term of five years during which term he shall not be at liberty to resign his office or to withdraw himself from the duties thereof except as is
Officers and Constables to be engaged for five years.
hereinafter provided.
X. Whenever
Bonus at end of five years' service in Force.
any Inspector Sergeant or Constable of the Police Force shall be desirous to leave the Force at the termination of bis service of five years he shall be at liberty to do so upon his giving to the Captain Superintendent three months' previous notice of his intention so to do, and he shall be thereupon entitled to a free passage from Hong-Kong to the port nearest to the place at which he may have been engaged for service in the Force or in lieu thereof or in case he shall have been engaged in Hong-Kong he shall be entitled to a sum equal to three months* of the rank to which at the time he may belong.
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XI. In case any Inspector Sergeant or Constable who shall have completed the period of service for which he had engaged shall be desirous of continuing
Power to renew service in Force for further period.
in the Police Force he shall be at liberty to engage and bind himself for a further term of five years on the same terms and conditions
and in like manner as is provided by Section 9.
Retiring pensions.
XII. Whenever any Inspector Sergeant or Constable shall have completed the full term of service of 10 years in the Police Force, he shall be entitled in addition to the bonus or passage money mentioned in Section 10, to an annual pension of 15-60ths of the annual pay of his rank; and also for every full and complete year's service after 10 years, to an addition to the annual pension of 1-60th in respect of each additional year of such service; and such pension shall be computed upon the amount of the annual pay enjoyed by the person retiring at the time of his retirement: Provided he shall have been in the receipt of the same for at least three years, otherwise the pension shall be calculated upon the average amount of pay received by such person for the three years next preceding the commencement of such pension. Provided always that His Excellency the Governor shall and may grant superannuation allowance or a fixed sum by way of compensation to any Inspector Sergeant or Constable of the Force who shall be disabled for further service by reason of wounds or injuries received in the actual execution of his duty,
XIII. The Captain Superintendent shall from time to time, subject to the approval of His Excellency the Governor, frame such Orders and Regulations as he shall deem expedient for the general government and discipline of the Police Force.
Rules for government and discipline of Force.
XIV.
On leaving Force acesu trements to be given up.
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Whenever any Inspector Sergeant or Constable of the Force shall resign the service, or shall cease to hold and exercise his office, all power and authority vested in him by virtue thereof shall forthwith cease and determine to all intents and purposes whatever; and every such Officer shall deliver over all and every the arms, ammunition, horses, accoutrements and other appointments whatsoever which shall have been supplied to him in such capacity, to the
person and at the time and place to be appointed by the Captain Superintendent; and it shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace to issue his warrant to search for and seize arms, ammunition, horses, accoutrements and other appointments whatsoever which shall not be so delivered over wheresoever the same shall be found.
on quitting Force.
XV. Whenever any Inspector Sergeant or Constable of the Force shall be guilty of any neglect or violation of duty in his office, or shall neglect or refuse to Penalty for neglect of duty or non-delivery of arms
obey or execute any warrant lawfully directed to be by him executed, or shall be guilty of any disobedience to the Orders and Regulations framed by the Captain Superintendent, or any other misconduct as an Officer of the Police Force, or as a Constable, or who having duly engaged and bound himself to serve in the Force shall desert therefrom, or who being permitted to resign shall not, upon ecasing to belong to the Force deliver up all arms, accoutrements, and appointments whatsoever entrusted to him for the performance of his duty, he shall upon conviction thereof before a Police Magistrate in a summary manner forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, and in default of payment thereof be imprisoned in any gaol of this Colony with or without hard labor for any term not exceeding six months, and every offender shall forfeit all pay during his imprisonment.
Captain Superintendent or Magistrate to panish for breaches of discipline.
XVI. The Captain Superintendent shall, in cases of breach of discipline or neglect of duty by any Officer or Constable of the Force, upon proof thereof to his satisfaction have power to order the offender to forfeit and pay a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars, or award imprisonment for any term not exceeding seven days with forfeiture of pay, or in his discretion the Captain superintending may bring the offender before a Police Magistrate who shall have power to award imprisonment for any term not exceeding fourteen days with or without hard labor together with forfeiture of all pay during such imprisonment.
XVII. If any person not being a member of the Police Force shall have in his possession any arms, accoutrements or appointments supplied to any Penalty for possession of Police appointments or per- Officer of the Force, and shall not be able satisfactorily to account for sonating Police Officer.
his possession thereof, or shall put on or assume the dress, name, designation or description of an Officer of the Force or of a Constable, every such person so offending shall in addition to any other punishment to which he may be liable for such offence, forfeit and pay for every such offence any sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, to be recovered in a suminary manuer before any Police Magistrate.
XVIII. It shall be lawful for any Officer or Constable of the Police Force to apprehend any person who shall be charged with or whom he shall reasonably suspect of being guilty of any felony or misdemeanour, without any warrant for that purpose, and whether he shall have seen such felony or misdemeanour committed or not, and whenever
Palice Oficer may appro hend persons suspected of being guilty of felony or misdemeanour.
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