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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 136. The following Bill was read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 7th June, 1917:--

A BILL

INTITULED

Short title and con- struction.

Ordinance No. 27 of 1914.

Alteration

of the title of the force.

Discipline. Ordinance No. 10 of 1886. Ordinance No. 11 of 1900.

An Ordinance to amend the Special Police Re- serve Ordinance, 1914, and to remove doubts as to the effect of proclamations made under section 10 of the said Ordinance.

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

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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Hongkong Police Reserve Ordinance, 1917, and shall be read and construed as one with the Special Police Reserve rdinance, 1914, bereinafter called the principal Ordinance, and this Ordi- uance and the said Ordinance may be cited together as the Hongkong Police Reserve Ordinances, 1914 and 1917.

2.—(1.) The title of the force raised under and re- gulated by the Hongkong Police Reserve Ordinances, 1914 and 1917, shall be the Hongkong Police Reserve.

(2.) All references in this Ordinance to the Hongkong Police Reserve shall be deemed to apply to the force referred to in the principal Ordinance and hitherto known as the Special Police Reserve.

(3.) The term "Hongkong Police Reserve" shall be substituted for the term “ Special Police Reserve" wher- ever the latter term appears in the principal Ordinance.

3.-(1.) Notwithstanding anything contained in the Peace Preservation Ordinance, 1886, or in the Police Force Ordinance, 1900, or in the principal Ordinance, it shall be lawful for the Captain Superintendent of Police, or the Deputy Superintendent of Police, or the Deputy Super- intendent of the Hongkong Police Reserve, in case of breach of discipline or neglect of duty by any member of the Hongkong Police Reserve, to order the offender to forfeit a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars or to undergo con- finement to barracks for any period not exceeding seven days.

(2.) If any offender who shall have been ordered to for- feit any such sum fails to pay such sum within such time as may be prescribed by the Captain Superintendent of Police, or the Deputy Superintendent of Police, or the Deputy Superintendent of the Hongkong Police Reserve, he shall be liable to undergo confinement to barracks for any period not exceeding seven days: Provided that if such offender shall at any time while undergoing such confine- ment to barracks pay in full the sum which he was ordered to forfeit, he shall thereupon be released from such con- finement.

(3.) 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.

(4.) If an offender 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 too obey any orders of the Captain Superintendent of Police with respect to his conduct during such confinement to barracks, he shall be liable upon summary conviction before a magistrate to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two mouths.