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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 214.--The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 1st September, 1927:---

C.S.O. 3153/26.

[No. 12-9.8.27.—2.j

A BILL

Short title.

Insertion of new section

4 in Ordi-

nance No. 6 of 1906.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Asylums Ordi-

nance, 1906.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :--

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Asylums Amend- ment Ordinance, 1927.

2. The following section is inserted in the Asylums Ordinance, 1906, immediately after section 3 thereof and is numbered section 4:-

Regulations.

4.-(1) It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make regulations for any of the following purposes :—

(a) to regulate the admission of patients 10 asylums in cases not otherwise provided for in this Ordinance :

(b) to regulate the defention and exam- ination of patients in asylums and matters appertaining thereto;

(c) to prescribe forms to be used for the purposes of this Ordinance ;

(d) to provide for any matter which he may consider desirable for the purpose of carry- ing out the objects of this Ordinance.

(2) All regulations made under this Ordi- nance shall be laid on the table of the Legisla- tive Commeil at the first meeting thereof held after the publication in the Gazette of the making of such regulations, and if a resolution be passed at the first meeting of the Legisla- tive Council held after such regulations have been laid on the table of the said Council resolving that any such regulation shall be rescinded or amended in any manner whatso- ever, the said regulation shall, without pre- judice to anything done thereunder, be decined to be rescinded or amended, as the case may be, as from the date of publication in the Gazette of the passing of such resolution,

Repeal of

3. Section 7 of the Asylums Ordinance, 1906, is Ordinance repealed and the following section is substituted there- No. 6 of 1906, for :-

s. 7 and

substitution

of new

section.

Removal to asylum for observation.

7.- (1) Upon the application of any person who has reason to believe that some other person is of unsound mind, it shall be lawful for any magistrate or justice of the peace to make an order authorizing the removal to an asylum, for the purpose of detention and obser- vation during a period not excceding seven days from and including the date of the order, of the person alleged to be of unsound mind.