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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 29TH MAY, 1897.

No. 5 OF 1897.

An Ordinance to amend the law as to Flogging.

LS WILLIAM ROBINSON,

Governor.

[28th May, 1897.]

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 Flogging Ordi- Short title. nance, 1897.

2. In this Ordinance, the words "Flogging" and Interpreta- . Flogged" shall include “Whipping" and "Whipped.” tion of terms.

3. From and after the commencement of this Ordinance The instru- whenever any offender is sentenced by a Judge of the ment of Supreme Court or by a Magistrate to be flogged, the flogging and sentence shall specify the birch as the instrument to be of strokes. used and the number of strokes to be inflicted. ber shall not exceed twenty at any one flogging.

Such num-

the mumber

4. Such flogging shall be inflicted on the breech, pri- Mode of rately, in prison and within six months of the sentence. infliction.

inconsistent

5. Where, by any Ordinauce in force save in so far as Construction it is modified by this Ordinanec, any Judge of the Supreme of Ordinances Court or any Magistrate is authorized to sentence an offender with this to flogging with a rattan or any instrument other than a Ordinance. birch, or to any number of strokes exceeding twenty at any one flogging, such Ordinance shall, from and after the commencement of this Ordinance, be read and construed as if the instrument of flogging therein specified had been a birch and the maximum number of strokes at any one Hogging therein specified had been twenty.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 17th day of May, 1897.

J. G. T. BUCKLE,

Clerk of Councils,

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 28th day of May, 1897.

J. II. STEWART LOCKHART,

Colonial Secretary.

No. 6 of 1897.

An Ordinance to amend The Regulation of

Chinese Ordinance, 1888.

LS

WILLIAM ROBINSON,

Governor.

[28th May, 1897.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as

follows:-

1. This Ordinance shall be read and construed as one Construction. together with Ordinance No. 13 of 1888, hereinafter referred

to as the principal Ordinance.

2. Section 30 of the principal Ordinance is hereby Repeal of repealed.

seet. 30 of

Ordinanec 13 of 1888,

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