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C.8.0.3251/27.

A BILL

[No. 18-12.11.27.-5.]

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Magistrates Ordi-

nance, 1890.

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 Magistrates Short title, Amendment Ordinance, 1927.

2. Section 8 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, Amendment as amended by section 3 of the Magistrates Amend- of Ordinance ment Ordinance, 1926, is further amended by the insertion of the words the Deputy Harbour Master immediately after the words " Harbour Master".

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No. 3 of 1890, s. 8. Ordinance No. 2 of 1926.

Amendment

of Ordinance

3. Section 10 (2) of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, is amended by the addition of the following . 3 of 1890, words at the end thereof :-

"and that it shall be lawful for a magistrate in any such event to hear and determine the case in all respects as if the defendant had appeared in answer to a summons”.

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s 10 (2)

4. Section 11 (1) of the Magistrates Ordinance, Amendment 1890, is amended by the repeal of the words on oath of Ordinance being made before him substantiating the matter of No. 3 of 1890, the complaint or information to his satisfaction”, in the seventh, eighth and ninth lines thereof.

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5. Section 31 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890. Amendment

is amended as follows:

of Ordinance No. 3 of 1890,

(a) Paragraph (1) is amended by the addition of s. 31.

the following words at the end thereof :-

he may order the defendant to enter into a recognizance with or without sureties, to be of good behaviour or to keep the peace, in a sum not greater than two hundred dollars and for a ferm not to exceed twelve months; or".

(b) Paragraph (2) is amended by the insertion of the words "or to keep the peace" imme- diately after the word "behaviour" in the Fourth line thereof.

(c) Paragraph (2) is also amended by the addition of the following words at the end thereof :-

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Provided that the security required shall not exceed two hundred dollars and the time during which the defendant may be called upon to appear for sentence or during which he is to be of good behaviour or is to keep the peace shall not exceed twelve months."