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This Ordce introduces two amendments of
character.
Om allows un Gov. to send
Un
a nove?
a person who is merely undur detention awaiting
, and who is certified of unsound mind, to a
tal
lunahi asylum
where he
may
Canquish
"
until further order".
The other
allous
lin Goo
b. sand
any
A
person, whethim in prison on being
merely detained, to
an asylum it kn (7.0.
thinks he is likely to become of unsound mured.
I consider both provisions objectionable. In the first
Case
the man should come up for trial in
ordmary
way
the
and if he is unfit to plead and
stand his hich he can hun be sent to the asylum
by the Judge. The second provision is open to
abucous objection: and I cannot see the need of it.
Before
a man becomes wisane his proper place is when he is almody: if he becomes mesane,
he
be_ dealt with under the pre-existing law.
Wedoen.
7. 3.35
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This amending Ordinance produces two changes into the Asylums Ordinance for Hong Kong.
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