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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 25, 1911.
HONGKONG.
No. 29 OF 1911.
An Ordinance to further amend the Prison Or-
dinance, 1899.
F. D. LUGARD,
LS
Governor.
[24th August, 1911.]
Short title.
Amends Ordinance
No. 4 of 1899.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof. as follows:---
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Prison Amend- ment Ordinance, 1911,
2. The Prison Ordinance, 1899, as amended by the Prison Amendment Ordinance, 1999, is hereby farther amended as follows:-
(77.) in section 6 (1) thereof by the deletion of the words “a prisoner shall be deemed to be in legal custody and by the substitution therefor of the words "a person shall be deemed to be a prisoner and in legal custody";
(5.) in section 6 (1) thereof by the insertion after the words "lawfully confine!," of the words
whether under eriminal or civil process,”; (r.) in section 11 (1) and also in section 11 (2) thereof by the insertion in each case after the word “prison" of the words or from legal Pustody".
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 10th day of August, 1911.
C. CLEMENTI.
Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 24th day of August, 1911.
WARREN BARNES,
Colonial Secretary,
Short title.
HONGKONG.
No. 30 of 1911.
An Ordinance to abolish Minimum Penalties, and to bring the Law of the Colony as to Penalties into uniformity with the Law of England, and for other purposes.
LS
F. D. LUGARD,
Gorernor.
[24th August, 1911.]
WHEREAS it is expedient for the better administration of justice to abolish minimum penalties, and so to bring the law of the Colony as to penalties into uniformity with the law of England :-
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may he cited as Amendment Ordinance, 1911".
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