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Accordingly, paragraph (a) of section 2 of this Ordinance

repeals the words "any available sites and buildings" and

substitutes the words "any place or building or portion of

a building".

3.

Under the practice referred to above it was usual to

obtain the sanction of the Governor for each removal of a

prisoner to the Government Civil Hospital. This was unsatis-

-factory in two respects. In the first place, a doubt may be

expressed as to whether the Governor had power to order a pri-

-soner to be removed from a prison to a place which is not a

prison. That point will be met when Ward Thirteen is set

apart as a prison under the present Ordinance. In the second

place,

it seems unnecessary that the Governor should have to

make a special order in each case in a matter which may quite

properly be placed in the discretion of the Superintendent of

Prisons. Again, it has hitherto been the practice for pri son-

-ers to be transferred from Victoria Gaol to Lai Chi Kok Prison,

and vice versa, under the authority of the Superintendent of

Here again a doubt night have been expressed as to

the power of the Superintendent to order such transfers.

Accordingly, a new section 4 which is inserted in the principal

Ordinance by section 3 of this Ordinance gives the Superin-

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-tendent of Prisons clear power to order transfers in both the

above classes of case. That ameriment makes paragraph (3) of

section 2 of the principal Ordinance unnecessary. The paragraph

in question gives the Governor power to make orders to remove

prisoners from one prison to another. That paragraph is there-

section2 of this Ordi-

-fore now repealed by paragraph (b) of secti

-nance.

4.

Section 3 of this Ordinance inserts a new section 4 in

the principal Ordinance, The main effect of the new section

is to give the Superintendent of Prisons power to make the