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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 14, 1917.

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HONGKONG.

No. 20 of 1917.

I assent to this Ordinance.

F. H. MAY,

LS

Governor.

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14th September, 1917.

An Ordinance to amend the Special Police Re- serve Ordinance, 1914, and to remove doubts as to the effect of the proclamation made under section 10 of the said Ordinance on the third day of September, 1915.

[14th September, 1917.]

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

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Hongkong Police Short title Reserve Ordinance, 1917, and shall be read and construed and con- as one with the Special Police Reserve Ordinance, 1914, struction. hereinafter called the principal Ordinance, and this Ordi- Ordinance nance and the said Ordinance may be cited together as the No. 27 of

1914. Hongkong Police Reserve Ordinances, 1914 and 1917.

2. The title of the force raised under and regulated by Alteration the Hongkong Police Reserve Ordinances, 1914 and 1917, of the litle shall be the Hongkong Police Reserve.

of the force,

3.-(1.) It shall be lawful for the Captain Superinten- Regulations. dent of Police to make, subject to the approval of the Governor in Council, such regulations as he may deem expedient for the general government and discipline of the Hongkong Police Reserve.

(2.) Any member of the Hongkong Police Reserve who commits a breach of any such regulation, or who refuses or neglects to obey any lawful order of any of his superior officers, or who is guilty of any other breach of discipline or neglect of duty, may be ordered by the Captain Super- intendent of Police to pay a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars or to undergo confinement to barracks for any period not exceeding seven days.

(3.) If any person who shall have been ordered to pay any such fine fails to pay such fine within such time as Inay be prescribed by the Captain Superintendent of Police he shall be liable to undergo confinement to barracks for any period not exceeding seven days: Pro- vided that if such person shall at any time while under- going such confinement to barracks pay in full to the pre- scribed officer the fine which he was ordered to pay he shall thereupon be released from such confinement.

(4.) If any confinement to barracks is ordered under any of the provisions of this section it shall be lawful for the Captain Superintendent of Police to direct in what place and under what conditions such confinement shall take place.

(5.) If any person who has been ordered to undergo confinement to barracks under any of the provisions of this section escapes from such confinement, or refuses or neglects to obey any orders of the Captain Superintendent of Police with respect to his conduct during such confinement 10 barracks, he shall be liable upon summary conviction before a magistrate to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.