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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 3, 1912.

HONGKONG.

No. 14 or 1912.

An Ordinance to amend the Deportation Ordi-

nance, 1912.

I asseut to this Ordinance.

LS

CLAUD SEVERN,

Officer Administering the Government,

[3rd May, 1912.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Liongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Deportation Short title. Amendment Ordinance, 1912.

2. The Deportation Ordinance, 1912, is hereby amended Amends in section 8 thereof as follows:-

section 8 of Ordinance

1912.

(a.) by the insertion of the figure (1) after the No. 9 of

figure 8 at the commencement thereof. (b) by the insertion at the end thereof of the fol-

lowing new sub-section :-

"(2.) Every person who has been prohi- bited by an order of banishment issued under the provisions of any enactment repealed by this Ordinance from residing or being within this Colony and who without lawful authority or excuse is in this Colony after the date of such order or after the time fixed for his depar- ture and before the expiration of the term of his banishment, shall be guilty of a misdemean- or, and being convicted thereof shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year: Provided that in any case in which the prisoner when brought before a Magistrate on any such charge, pleads guilty thereto, it shall be lawful for the Magistrate to deal sum- mmarily with the case, instead of committing the prisoner for trial at the Supreme Court,”

3. The Deportation Ordinance, 1912, is hereby further Amends amended in section 10 thereof by the insertion after the section 10 of word" Ordinance" in the fifth line of the words "

or by Ordinance virtue of an order of banishment issued under any enact- No. 9 of ment repealed by this Ordinance".

1912.

4. Form 7 in the Schedule to the Deportation Ordinance, Amends 1912, is hereby amended by the deletion of the word Form 7 in the "thereof and by the substitution therefor of the word Schedule of "hereof ".

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 2nd day of May, 1912.

Ordinance No. 9 of 1912,

R. H. CROFTON,

Clerk of Councils,

Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 3rd day of May, 1912.

C. CLEMENTI,

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