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EXECUTIVE COUNCIL DECISION OF 10.11.70

The Council considered memorandum XCR (70)345.

The Council ADVISED and the Acting Governor ORDERED:

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(a) that subject to the amendments detailed

below the Criminal Procedure (Amendment)

Bill 1971 be introduced into the Legislative Council

(1)

that the provisions dealing with suspended sentences of imprisonment be made operative for a trial period of 3 years, unless this period is extended by resolution of the Legislative Council;

(ii) that the words "greater or" be added

before the word "lasser" in the proposed new section 109C(i)(b);

(iii) that a provision be added to the Bill

to empower a court to attach to a suspended sentence much conditions as it thinks fit, any breach of them making the offender liable to be dealt

with in the same way as if he had committed a further offence;

(b) that the Nagistrates (Amendment) Bill 1971

be introduced into the Legislative Council.

R. J. Frampton

Deputy Clerk of Councils