CO129-375 - Governor Sir Lugard - 1911 [1-2] — Page 363

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Enclosure 1.

A BILL

entitled

An Ordinance to amend the Flogging Ordinance, 1903.

RECO Grof 30 MI

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Be it enacted &c.

jort title and instruction.

1.

pends section

of the Princi- þal Ordinance.

epeals section

of the Princi- pal Ordinance And substitutes nother Section.

&C.

This Ordinance may be cited as "The Flogging Amend- -ment Ordinance 1911", and it shall be read and construed as one with the Flogging Ordinance 1903 hereinafter call- -ed the Frincipal Ordinance".

2.

Section 3 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the addition after the figures *1865" in sub- -section (5) thereof of the words *; sections 44 and 45. of the rain Offences against the Person Ordinance

1865;*.

3.

Section 4 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed and the following section is substituted there-

-for:-

있다.

*4 (1). In the case of any crime made punishable

under section 31 of the Larceny Ordinance 1865 where the punishment of flogging is awarded by the Supreme Court on an offender whose age exceeds sixteen years the follow- -ing provisions shall have effect:- (a). the sentence shell prescribe the

number of strokes to be inflicted; (b). the number off strokes shall not

exceed fifty and the instrument used

shall be such instrument as the Court, in its sentence, may specify;

(c). the fanging flogging shall be in-

-flicted privately in prison and with-

-in six months of the sentence.

(2).