Ord. No. 56/73
A329
'PREVENTION OF BRIBERY (AMENDMENT)
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section (1) or satisfies the magistrate that he does not possess a travel document, by warrant commit him to prison there to be safely kept-
(a) until the expiry of the period of twenty-eight
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days from the date of his committal to prison as aforesaid; or
(b) until such person complies with the notice under subsection (1) and a magistrate, by order in that behalf, orders and directs the Commissioner of Prisons to discharge such person from prison (which order shall be sufficient warrant for the Commissioner of Prisons so to do),
whichever occurs first.
(6) A travel document which is surrendered to the Director under this section may be detained for six months from the date on which it was surrendered and may be detained for a further three months if a magistrate, on application by the Director, is satisfied that the investigation could not reasonably have been completed before the date of such application and authorizes such further detention.
(7) In this section, "travel document" means a passport or other document establishing the identity or nationality of a holder.”.
Section 31 of the principal Ordinance is amended-
(a) in subsection (2), by deleting "(other than an offence
under section 10)"; and
(b) by inserting the following new subsection after subsection
(3)—
"(4) Neither section 7 of the Legal Officers Ordinance nor section 43 of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance shall apply to or in respect of the giving by the Attorney General of his consent to the institution of a prosecution for an offence against section 10.".
5. Section 32 of the principal Ordinance is amended by deleting "10 or" in subsections (1) and (2).
6. The amendments made by sections 2, 4 and 5 of this Ordinance shall take effect in relation to offences committed before, as well as after, the commencement of this Ordinance.
Amendment of, section 31.
Amendment of section 32.
Transitional.
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