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Mr Wilford
Mr Logan
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1. I understand that in the course of a meeting last week
with Mr Ho Tung Mr Royle asked for a note about recent
legislation enacted in Hong Kong providing for more severe
punishments (with particular reference to corporal punishment)
for dealing with crime, and particularly crimes of violence.
The position is set out below.
THE CORPORAL PUNISHMENT (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE 1971
2.
This Ordinance was enacted in April. Its main effect
was to add two offences (affray and possession of an offensive weapon in a public place) to the schedule of offences prescribed
under the principal Ordinance on conviction for which a male
person of 16 years or over could be sentenced to caning in
lieu of or in addition to any other punishment.
The matter
was the subject of my submissions of 16 March and 25 March
and Ministerial approval was obtained for the enactment of the
Ordinance.
THE PROBATION OF OFFENDERS (AMENDMENT) ORDINANCE 1971
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3.
This Ordinance was enacted in May 1971. Under the law
and
as it had previously stood, male offenders under 16 years of
age could be sentenced both to probation and to caning;
offenders both under and over 16 years of age could be
sentenced to imprisonment and/or caning on conviction for
specified offences; but if the offender were 16 years old
or more a probation order could not be combined with any other form of sentence. The purpose of the Ordinance (which
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