CO129-551-5 Asylums Amendment Ordinance 1935 24-1-1935 - 29-5-1935 — Page 21

HONG KONG.

No. 1 OF 1935.

I assent.

W. PEEL,

L.S.

Governor.

25th January, 1935.

An Ordinance to amend the Asylums Ordinance, 1906.

[25th January, 1935.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Asylums Amend- Short title. ment Ordinance, 1935.

2. Sub-section 2 of section 15 of the Asylums Ordinance, Substitution 1906, is repealed and the following sub-section is substituted therefor

(2) If any person who has been imprisoned under any sentence of imprisonment, or who is otherwise lawfully Cor detained in any prison or house of detention, is, in the opinion of the Medical Officer of the prison or house of detention, as the case may be, in which such person is confined, of unsound mind or likely to become of unsound mind, the Governor may by warrant under his hand order such person to be removed to an asylum and to be detained there until the expiration of his sentence or period of detention or until further order.

for Ordin- ance No. 6 of 1906, s. 15 (2).

3. Sub-sections 3 and 4 of section 15 of the Asylums Amendment Ordinance, 1906, are amended by the insertion of the words. of Ordin- "or period of detention" immediately after the words "the of 1906, expiration of his sentence" in each sub-section.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 24th day of January, 1935.

ance No. 6

s. 15, s.s. 3 and 4.

R. A. C. NORTH,

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

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