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Enclosure No. 2.

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

Hongkong...24th.Dane,bax,1927.

REPORT ON ORDINANCE No...2.5...

...........of 1927

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1.

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled an Ordinance

to amend the Prisons Ordinance, 1899, and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the Gover-

-nor's instructions.

2. It has been the practice for many years to transfer to

the Government Civil Hospital prisoners who, in the opinion

f the prison in which such prisoners

of the medical of

officed f

are confined, cannot properly be treated in the prison hos-

-pital.

There is now a special ward, Ward Thirteen in the

Government Civil Hospital, which is self-contained and is

arranged as a prison. This ward has however, not been set

apart as a prison under the Prisons Ordinance, 1899. Recently,

therefore, it was proposed to make an order setting this ward

apart as a prison, but doubts were raised as to whether the

power conferred on the Government by section 2 of the Prisons

Ordinance, 1899, included a power to set apart a portion of a building, because the wording of paragraph (1) of that

section was,

"to set apart any available sites and buildings".