Short title.
Amendments in Ordin- ances No. 10 of 1886,
s. 12A (c), No. 3 of 1903, ss. 4 (1) (b), 4
(2) (d) and 6, and in
Prison Rules 317
(a) and 321
set out in Schedule.
698
A BILL
INTITULED
[No. 20-20.5.36.-1.]
An Ordinance to amend the law relating to the instruments
which may be used in flogging or whipping.
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 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.
SCHEDULE.
Enactments to be amended.
[s. 2].
Amendment.
The Peace Preservation Ordin- ance, 1886 (Ordinance No. 10 of 1886).
The Flogging Ordinance, 1903. (Ordinance No. 3 of 1903).
The Prison Rules (Regulations of Hongkong 1844-1925, pages 240 and 241).
In section 12A (2) the words "a 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).
a
In section 4 (1) the words
light cane or rattan" shall be substituted for the words "a 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.
In General Rule 317 the words "a light cane or rattan" shall be substituted for the words "a birch rod or light cane" in each of the two places where the latter words are used in paragraph (a).
In General Rule 321 the words "a light cane or rattan" shall be substituted for the words "a birch rod or cane".
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