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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, AUGUST 28, 1936.

HONG KONG.

No. 33 OF 1936.

I assent.

R. A. C. NORTH,

L.S.

Officer Administering the Government.

Short title.

Amendments

in Ordin-

of 1886,

28th August, 1936.

An Ordinance to amend the law relating to the instruments

which may be used in flogging or whipping.

[28th August, 1936.]

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 Cane for Birch Substitution Ordinance, 1936.

2. In order that a light cane or rattan shall be substituted ances No. 10 for the birch in the provisions of the law relating to flogging or whipping the enactments mentioned in the first column of the Schedule shall have effect subject to the amendments specified in the second column thereof.

s. 12A (c), No. 3 of 1903, ss. 4

(1) (6), 4 (2) (d) and 6, and in

Prison Rules 317 (a) and 321 set out in Schedule.

SCHEDULE.

Enactments to be amended.

[8. 2].

Amendment.

The Peace Preservation Ordin- ance, 1886 (Ordinance No. 10 of 1886).

The Flogging Ordinance, 1903. (Ordinance No. 3 of 1903).

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a

In section 12A (2) the words

light cane or rattan" shall be subsituted for the words "the birch in the third line and also in the sixth line of para- graph (c).

In section 4 (1) the words a light cane or rattan" shall be substituted for the words ล birch" in the third line of paragraph (b).

In section 4 (2) the words "a light cane or rattan" shall be substituted for the words "a birch" in the first line of paragraph (d).

In section 6 the words "a light cane or rattan" shall be sub- stituted for the words "the birch" in the fifth line thereof.