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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 2, 1931.

HONG KONG.

No. 23 of 1931.

I assent.

W. PEEL,

L.S.

Governor.

2nd October, 1931.

An Ordinance to amend the Police Force

Ordinance, 1900.

[2nd October, 1931.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council there- of, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Police Force Short title. Amendment Ordinance, 1931.

2. Section 26 of the Police Force Ordinance as amended Substitution by the Police Force Amendment Ordinance, 1929, is of new repealed and the following new section is substituted section for therefor :--

Arrest

section 26 of Ordinance No. 11 of

26.--(1) It shall be lawful for any officer of 1900. detention

police to apprehend any person who may be Ordinance and bail of

charged with, or whom he may reasonably No. 18 of suspected persons and suspect of being guilty of, any offence without 1929.

any warrant for that purpose, and whether he has seen such offence committed or not, and also any person whom he may reasonably suspect of being liable to deportation from the Colony.

seizure of suspected documents.

4 & 5 Geo. 5, c. 58, s. 29.

(2) Whenever any person so apprehended without a warrant is brought to the officer in charge of any police station, it shall be lawful for such officer to inquire into the case and, unless the offence appears to such officer to be of a serious nature, or unless such person appears to such officer to be a person who ought to be detained, to discharge the person upon his entering into a recognizance with or without sureties for a reasonable amount to appear before a magistrate, or to surrender for service of an arrest and detention warrant or for discharge, at the time and place named in the recognizance, but where such person is detained in custody he shall be brought before a magistrate as SOOD as practicable, unless within forty-eight hours of his apprehension a warrant for his arrest and detention under any Ordinance relating to Deportation is applied for, in which case he may be detained for a period not exceeding seventy-two hours from the time of such apprehension. Every recognizance so taken shail be of equal obliga-

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