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Municipal Regulations.
Approval of Regulations.
Publication of Regula-
tions.
Prison
Regulations,
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 1ST SEPTEMBER, 1905.
(3.) Any person committing a breach of any such Regulations shall, in addition to any forfeiture prescribed thereby, be liable, on conviction, to imprison- ment, for a period not exceeding three months, or to a fine, or to both.
(4.) Any fine imposed for a breach of Regulations shall not exceed 50%. : provided that where the breach is of any regulation relating to customs law, or to the importation or exportation of any goods, the fine may extend to a sum equiva- lent to treble the value of the goods in relation to which the breach is committed.
156. His Majesty's Ministers in China and Corea respectively; in the exercise of the powers aforesaid, may, if they think fit, join with the Ministers of any foreign Powers in amity with His Majesty in making or adopting Regulations for the municipal government of any foreign concession or settlement in China or Corea as the case may be; and as regards British subjects, such joint Regulations shall be as valid and binding as if they related to British subjects only.
157.-(a.) Regulations made or adopted under this Order shall not have effect as respects British subjects unless and until they are approved by His Majesty the King, that approval being signified through the Secretary of State, save that, in case of urgency declared in any such Regulations, the same shall take effect before that approval, and shall continue to have effect unless and until they are disapproved by His Majesty the King, and until notification of that disapproval has been received and published by His Majesty's Minister in China or Corea as the case may be.
(b.) Any Regulations when so approved, and published as provided by this Order, shall have effect as if contained in this Order.
158.-(1.) All Regulations approved under this Order, whether imposing penalties or not, shall be printed, and a printed copy thereof shall be affixed, and be at all times kept exhibited conspicuously in the public office of each Consulate in China and Corea.
(2.) Printed copies of the Regulations shall be kept on sale at such reasonable price as His Majesty's Minister from time to time directs.
(3.) A printed copy of any Regulations purporting to be made under this Order and to be certified under the hand of His Majesty's Minister in China or Corea, or under the hand and Consular seal of one of His Majesty's Consular officers in China and Corea, shall be conclusive evidence of the due making of such Regulations.
159. The respective powers aforesaid extend to the making of Regulations. for the governance, visitation, care, and superintendence of prisons in China or in Corea, for the removal of prisoners from one prison to another, and for the inflic- tion of corporal or other punishment on prisoners committing offences against the rules or discipline of a prison; but the provisions of this Order respecting penalties, and respecting the printing, affixing, exhibiting, and sale of Regulations, and the mode of trial of charges of offences against Regulations, do not apply to Regula- tions respecting prisons and offences of prisoners.
Customis may be observed.
PART IX.
MISCELLANEOUS.
160. Nothing in this Order shall deprive the Court of the right to observe, and to enforce the observance of, or shall deprive any person of the benefit of, any reasonable custom existing in China or Corea, unless this Order contains some express and specific provision incompatible with the observance thereof.
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