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Enclosure No. 2.

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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

Hong Kong 1st December, 193 2.

REPORT ON ORDINANCE No

38

of 193 2.

1. I have examined the accompanying Ordinance.

intituled an

Ordinance to consolidate and amend the law relating to

Prisons, and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which

is not contrary to the Governor's instructions.

2.

This Ordinance consolidates and amends the law relating

to Prisons. The source of each section and the nature of

the amendments are shown in the attached Table of

Correspondence. The principal amendments are the following:-

3.

In section 4 a new sub-section (s. s. 4) has been

introduced to allow of the transfer of a prisoner from and

to a prison to and from any place at which his attendance is

required for the purposes of any form of statutory procedure,

e.g., in the case of a convicted prisoner, for examination

at the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs under the Deportation

Ordinance, or to give evidence before a magistrate, etc.

4. Sub-section (5) of section 7 has been omitted, the view

of the Superintendent of Prisons being that "a modern prison

cannot be run on the 'silent' system. At work, at exercise

and in hospital prisoners talk. To prevent them communicat-

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