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Enclosure 2.

A BILL

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An Ordinance to further amend the Flogging Ordinance 1903 as

amended by the Flogging Amendment Ordinance 1911.

Be it enacted

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Short title and construction.

Amends Section 4 (1) of Ordi- -nance No. 3 of 1903 as amended by Ordinance No.

of 1911.

Amends section 7 of the Principal Ordinance.

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1. This Ordinance may be cited as "The Flogging

Further Amendment Ordinance, 1911", and it shall be read

and construed as one with the "Frincipal Ordinance*

which expression when used in this Ordinance shall be

deemed to mean the Flogging Ordinance 1903 as amended by

the Flogging Amendment Ordinance 1911.

2. Section 4 (1) of the Principal Ordinance is hereby

amended by the insertion after the figures "1865" in

line 2 thereof of the words "or under sections 44 or 45

of the Offences against the Person Ordinance 1855*.

3.

Section 7 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the addition thereto of the following proviso:

"Provided always that where any female is convicted

before the Supreme Court of any crime which would

have rendered her liable, if a male, to be flogged,

the Court may, in addition to any other punish-

-ment awarded for such crime, direct that she be

kept in solitary confinement for any term not

exceeding seven days in cases falling within the

provisions of Section 4 (1) of the Principal

Ordinance as amended by this Ordinance and not

exceeding 4 days in other cases".

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