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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 357.-The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 1st December, 1927 :-

C.S.O. 3251/27.

[No. 18-12.11.27.-5.]

A BILL

Short title.

Amendment

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

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 Amendment Ordinance, 1927.

2. Section 8 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, as amended by section 3 of the Magistrates Amend- ment Ordinance, 1926, is further amended by the insertion of the words "the Deputy Harbour Master' No. 2 of 1926. immediately after the words “ Harbour Master".

Ordinance

Amendment

3. Section 10 (2) of the Magistrates Ordinance, of Ordinance 1890, is amended by the addition of the following No. 3 of 1890, words at the end thereof :- s 10 (2).

Amendment

"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".

4. Section 11 (1) of the Magistrates Ordinance, of Ordinance 1890, is amended by the repeal of the words “

on oath No. 3 of 1890, being made before him substantiating the matter of s. 11 (1).

the complaint or information to his satisfaction", the seventh, eighth and ninth lines thereof.

Amendment

in

5. Section 31 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890,

of Ordinance is amended as follows:- No. 3 of 1890,

s. 31.

(a) Paragraph (1) is amended by the addition of 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 term not to exceed twelve months; or".

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(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 :- "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."

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