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ORDINANCE No. 18 of 1885.

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No. 18 of 1885.

An Ordinance entitled The Prison Ordinance, 1885.

[16th November, 1885.]

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the

Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. The Governor may from time to time make, and when made alter or revoke, orders for any of the following purposes, viz. :-

(a.) To set apart any available sites and buildings for the

purpose of a prison.

(b.) To discontinue the use of any prison and appropriate the

site and buildings thereof to any other lawful purpose.

(c.) To remove prisoners from one prison to another. (d.) To appoint fit persons to be respectively superintendents.

of prisons, chaplains and surgeons, and such subordi nate officers for, the service of prisons as the Governor may think necessary, and to remove such persons from their offices, and to regulate the salaries to be paid to such persons.

2. The site and buildings and prison Known as Victoria Gaol at the time of the coming into operation of this Ordinance shall be deemed to be a prison duly set apart under section 1 of this Ordinance.

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[See Amend- ment Ordi- nance No. 13 of 1889.]

Governor

may make. orders in certain matters.

Victoria, Gaol deemed a prison.

Present officers to be

pointed under this Ordi-

manco.

3. The Superintendent and officers of Victoria Gaol at the time of the commencement of this Ordinance shall be deemed to be duly appointed deemed ap- under section 1 of this Ordinance. But such officers shall hold their offices by the same tenure, and upon like terms and conditions, as if this Ordinance had not passed.

4. Prisoners shall be under the control of superintendents of prisons Superintend assisted by the prison officers appointed thereto under the provisions of

this Ordinance.

5. A prisoner shall be deemed to be in legal custody whenever he is being taken to or from or whenever he is confined in any prison in which he may be lawfully confined, or whenever he is working outside or is otherwise beyond the walls of any such prison in the custody or under the control of a prison officer belonging to such prison, and any

ents.

Custody of prisoners.