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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 2, 1910.

Principal Lívil Medical

Officer and medical officer in charge of any leper asylum to exercise povers of Police Magistrate in asylum.

Regulations To be made by the

12. The Principal Civil Medical Officer shall have and exercise all the powers of a Police Magistrate with respect to all offenecs committed by persons detained as lepers in a leper asylum, and shall also have power to hear and determine all complaints of offences punishable under section 10 of this Ordinance. And it shall be lawful for the Governor from time to time to appoint any medical officer having charge of any leper asylum to have and exercise all the powers of a Police Magistrate therein. Every decision given under the provisions of this section shall be subject to the same rights of appeal as the deci- sions of a Police Magistrate.

13. It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council from time to time to make such regulations as he may deen Govermor-in- necessary :-

Council.

Penalty for breach of

(.) For inspection, examination, and removal of

lopers to a leper asylum:

(6.) For the proper management and sanitation of

the leper asylum or asylums;

(e) For the discipline and good order of the in-

mates of such asylum or asylums ;

(d) For the custody and imprisonment within such asylum or asylums of lepers accused of and found guilty of offences :

(c.) For regulating the sittings and procedure of courts to be held under the provisions of this Ordinance;

(f) Generally for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance and for the well being of such asylum or asylums and the inmates thereof;

and from time to time to revoke, amend, and vary such regulations.

All regulations made under the provisions of this section shall be published in the duzette, and from the date of regulations. such publication shall have the same force and effect as if they were enacted in and formed part of this Ordinance and every person acting in contravention of any regulation made under the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on conviction for each such offence to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.or to imprison- ment with or without bard labour to any term not exceed- ing one month.

Power to

14. The Governor-in-Council may, by order, prohibit banish leper. any leper, not being a natural born or naturalized subject of His Majesty, from residing or being within this Colony for such period as the Governor-in-Conneil may think fit, and may, by the same or any subsequent order, fix the time for the departure of such leper from the Colony. The leper named in any such order shall be arrested and detained in eustody by the Police until be leaves the Colony or mutil the final departure from the Colony of any vessel in which be leaves.

Penalty for harbouring or concval. ing lepers.

Appoint- ment and luties of Visiting

Justices.

15. Any person who knowingly harbours or conceals in this Colony any person suffering from leprosy shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to penalty not execeding one hundred dollars.

16-(1.) The Governor shall from time {() time appoint, with their consent, Justices of the Peace to be visitors of Leper Asylums established under this Ordinance for periods to be specified in such appointments,

(2.) Such visitors shall be at liberty to enter Asylum at all times and make such enquiry or examination any such therein as may be deemed necessary and shall make such reports to the Colonial Secretary as may be required by any order of the Governor.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 1st day of September, 1910.

C. CLEMENTI,

Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 2nd day of September, 1910.

A. M. THOMSON,

Colonial Secretary.

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