CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7] — Page 453

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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

Hongkong...9th..........u.......................101- 1922.

REPORT ON ORDINANCE No....23......................of 101- 1922.

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled

an Ordinance to amend the isdemeanours Punishment Ordinance, 1898,

and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is which is not contrary to the

Governor's Instructions.

demeanours.

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2. This Ordinance increases the general maximump enalty for mis-

Under Ordinance No. 1 of 1898, the general maximun

penalty was imprisonment for one year and a fine of $500. The

maximum penalty for the conspiracies specified in section 5 of that

Ordinance was imprisonment for three years and a fine of $500. The

present ordinance makes the general maximum penalty imprisonment for

three years and a fine of $1,000.

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