TNAG-0315-FCO40-351-Legislation-for-corporal-punishment-in-Hong-Kong-and-for-the-1971 — Page 7

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the present position regarding recent legislation

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enacted in Hong Kong providing for more severe

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crimes of violence. The position is set out below.

2.

The Corporal Punishment (Amendment) Ordinance 1971.

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.

1971.

Under

3. The Probation of Offenders (Amendment) Ordinance

This Ordinance was enacted in May 1971.

the law as it had previously stood, male offenders

under 16 years of age could be sentenced both to

probation and to caning; and 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

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