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A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to introduce into the Criminal Law Ordinances of 1865 certain provisions of the Criminal Law Amendment Acts of the United Kingdom of 1861, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislativo Conneil thereof, as follows:--

1. This Ordinance may be cited as The Criminal Law Short title. Amendent Ordinance, 1911.

2. The following provisions are added to the Offences Amendment against the Person Or Sunce, 1865, and shall be un- of Ordinance bered sub-sections (1), (2) and (3) respectively of a now No. 2 of 1865,

section numbered 30A :

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with intent

passengers.

“30a.-(1.) Every person who unlawfully and mali- Placing

ciously puts or throws upon or across any rail- wood etc, on way any wood, stene, or other matter or thing, a railway or unlawfully and maliciously takes up, re- to endanger moves, or displaces any rail, sleeper, or other matter or thing belonging to any railway, or unlawfully and maliciously turns, moves, ON diverts any points or ather machinery belonging to any railway, or unlawfully and maliciously makes or shows, hides or removes, any signal or light upon or near to any railway, or unlaw- fully and maliciously do s or causes to be done any other matter or thing, with intent, in any of the eases aforesaid, to endanger the safety of any person travelling or being upon such railway, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment with bard labour for any term not execoding fourteen years, and, if » male under the age of sixteen years, with or without whipping.

with intent

(2.) Every person who unlawfully and maliciously casting

throws, or causes to fall or strike, at, against, stone etc. into, or upon any engine, tender, carriage, or upon a rail- truck used upon any railway, any wood, stone, way carriage or other matter or thing, with intent to impure to endanger or endanger the safety of any person being in the safety of or upon such engine, tender, carriage, or truck, any person or in or upon any other engine, tender, earri- therein. age, or truck of any train of which such first- mentioned engine, tender, carriage, or truck shall form part, shall be guilty of felony and shall be liable to imprisonment with hard labour for any term not exceeding fourteen years. (3.) Every person who, by any unlawful act, or by Doing or any wilful omission or neglect, endangers or omitting causes to be endangered the safety of any endanger

anything to person conveyed or being in or upon a railway, passengers or aids or assists therein, shall be guilty of by railway, misdemeanor, and shall be liable to unprison- ment for any term not exceeding two years, (4.) For the purposes of this section, railway”

shall include framway

3-(1.) Sections 3 and 4 of the Malicious Damage Amend- Amen.iment ment Ordinance, 1910, are added to the Malicious Damage of Ordinance Ordinance, 1865, and shall be numbered sub-sections (1) No. 6 of and (2) respectively of a new section numbered 27a.

1865 as

mended by

(2.) Section 2 of the said Ordinance is repealed, und in Ordinance lion thereof the following shall be added as sub-section (3) No. 10 of of the aforesaid new section 27A :-~

"(3.) For the purposes of this section 4 railway

tramway".

includes

1910.

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