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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, APRIL 19, 1912.

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(a.) of imprisonment for life, or (b.) of imprisonment for a period not

exceeding a specified term, or

(c.) of a fine,

the Court may, after conviction of any person of an offence, award a sentence less than for life, or less than for the specified term, or less than the fine specified, in the enactment, as the case may be ". (i.) The first paragraph of s. 3 shall be amended and shall read as follows-

"Where under any enactment

now in force, or under any future enactment, a Court shall sentence a person con- victed of an offence for which the penalty of imprisonment is provided, the Court may, unless (a) in the case of any enactment now in force, the enactment as printed in the New Revised Edition of the Laws of Hongkong presently to be published, and (b) in the case of any future enactment, such enactment provides that the imprisonment shall be with: out hard labour, inflict imprison- ment with or without bard labour." (in.) The last paragraph of s. 3 is repealed. (iv.) in s. 4 the words "and where either of the aforesaid alternative penalties is provided as alternative to any other penalty, it is repealed", are repealed.

(v.) The following Ordinances are introduced into Part II of the schedule in their proper chronological order--

Ordinance No. 1 of 1887, ss. 6, 7.

No. 2 of 1889, s. 50.

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No. 10 of 1889, s. 36 (14).

(vi) In Part V of the schedule, for "Or- dinance No. 2 of 1870, in sections 2 and 5 (2)” there shall be read “Ordinance No. 2 of 1870, in sections 2,5 (2) and 7 ".

(vii) In the paragraph dealing with Or- dinance No. 10 of 1886, the figures "9 (3)" are repealed.

(viii) After the paragraph dealing with Or- dinance No. 10 of 1899, the following new paragraph shall be inserted--

"Ordinance No. 5 of 1903, in section 3, for

the words 'and, at the discretion of the Magistrate, to imprisonment" there shall be read or to imprison- ment'."

(i.) The paragraph dealing with Ordinauce No. 3 of 1904 is repealed.

(x.) In the parapraph dealing with Ordinance No. 16 of 1911 for " or imprisonment "and imprisonment" there shall be read

a fine" and "and to a fine" respectively.

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and

or to

82. Whereas it is expedient to introduce No. 81 of certain amendments into the Interpretation Or- 1911.

dinance, 1911 (No. 31 of 1911), the following amendments are made in the said Ordinance

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