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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 28, 1928.

L.S.

HONG KONG.

No. 15 or 1928.

I assent.

W. T. SOUTHORN,

Officer Administering the Government.

28th December, 1928.

An Ordinance to amend the Larceny Ordinance,

1865.

[28th December, 1928.]

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

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Larceny Short title. Amendment Ordinance, 1928.

2. Section 39 of the Larceny Ordinance, 1865, is Repeal of repealed and the following section is substituted Ordinance

No. 5 of 1865, therefor:

s. 39, and substitution of new section.

Burglary. (6 & 7 Ģeo. 5, c. 50, s. 25)

39. Every person who in the night—

(1) breaks and enters the dwelling- house of another with intent to commit any felony therein; or

(2) breaks out of the dwelling-house

of another, having--

(a) entered the said dwelling- house with intent to commit

any felony therein; or

(b) committed any felony in

the said dwelling-house;

shall be guilty of felony called burglary.

3. Sections 44 and 45 of the Larceny Ordinance 1865, are repealed and the following sections are sub- stituted therefor :-

Housebreak-

ing and

committing felony (6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 50, s. 26)

44. Every person who-

Repeal of Ordinance No. 5 of 1865, ss. 44 and 45, and substitution

of new

(1) breaks and enters any dwelling- sections.

house, or any building within the curtilage thereof and occupied therewith, or any school-house, shop, warehouse, counting-house, office, store, garage, pavilion, factory, or workshop, or any build- ing belonging to His Majesty, or to any Government Department, or to any other public authority, and commits any felony therein ; or

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