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Objects and Reasons.

1. This Ordinance represents generally the ill drafted by the Committee appointed to report on measures required for the institution of Juvenile Courts in Hong Kong. The provisions recommended by the Committee, in the matter of associating Justices of the Peace with the Magistrates for the trial of juvenile offenders have been omitted from section 3, as it was felt by the Government after careful enquiries that the time is not ripe for prescribing such association and in particular that the Colony is not yet ready for the appointment of women Justices of the Peace. Section 19 (4) has also been enlarged to make provision for the detention of remanded or convicted persons only in places suited to receive them.

2. The Ordinance is based partly on the relevant provisions of the Probation of Offenders Act, 1907, the Children Act, 1908, the Juvenile Courts (Metropolis) Act, 1920, and the Criminal Justice Act, 1925, and partly on a model Bill which has been recommended by similar Committee in England.

December, 1931.

C.S.O. 2739/21.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

Short title.

Substitution

for s. 32 of

Ord. No. 11 of 1900, as amended by Ord. No. 18 of 1929, s. 4.

Special duty

thereof.

A BILL

INTITULED

[No. 40-18.12.31.-2.]

An Ordinance to amend the Police Force Ordinance, 1900.

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 Police Force Amendment Ordinance, 1932.

2. Section 32 of the Police Force Ordinance, 1900, as amended by section 4 of the Police Force Amendment Ordinance, 1929, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-

32.-(1) On the application of any person, the Inspec- and expenses tor General of Police may, if he thinks fit, detail any mem- ber or members of the force to do special police duty in, upon or about any premises specified by the applicant.

Ordinance

No. 6 of 1875.

(2) The applicant shall pay to the Inspector General of Police for the services of any member or members of the force so detailed such fees as the Inspector General of Police may think fit.

(3) All fees so received by the Inspector General of Police shall be paid by him into the Treasury, forthwith and be accounted for monthly; and every sum of money due for such services shall be deemed a debt due to the Crown and shall be recoverable by the Treasurer, in like inanner as other Crown debts in respect of fees and other- wise, under the Crown Remedies Ordinance, 1875.