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him appropriated (if any such direction as aforesaid is made by the Court) in the manner directed by the Court.
The balance of such fine, if any, shall be applied as the Governor directs to the payment of the necessary expenses of carrying this Ordinance into execution, and for such local purposes as the Governor determines.
and Police to assist in carrying out the Ordinance.
It shall be the duty of all watchmen and of all members of the Watchmen and Police Force to aid and assist the District and Sub-district Committees and Courts in the exercise of the powers and jurisdictions and the performance of the duties conferred and imposed upon them by this Ordinance.
28. Every President, Chairman, and member of a District or Sub-district Court or Committee, and every watchman, shall be deemed to be a "public servant" within the meaning of the Misdemeanors Punishment Ordinance, 1898, and the provisions of that Ordinance shall be applicable in every respect as if such President, Chairman, member, or watchman had been included in the definition of a public servant contained in that Ordinance.
Penalty for bribery.
Levying of contributions on inhabitants where extra crime requires extra Police.
(1.) Where, in the opinion of the Governor, there is an undue prevalence of crime in any District or Sub-district, or any District or Sub-district Committee appears to him to be unable or to fail to maintain peace and good order in such District or Sub-district, it shall be lawful for the Governor to station Police or extra Police in such District or Sub-district, and to order the levy of a special rate upon such District or Sub-district, to an amount sufficient to defray the whole or any portion of the cost of such Police.
(2) When the levying of any such special rate is ordered by the Governor, he may, by such order, specify the procedure by which payment of such rate may be enforced summarily by a Magistrate, and all Magistrates shall have jurisdiction so to enforce the same accordingly.
ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1899.
Repealed or substituted by Ordinance No. 12 of 1899.
An Ordinance to provide for the Better Regulation of the New Territories.
[18th April, 1899.]
It is enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
This Ordinance may be cited as the New Territories (Regulation) Ordinance, 1899.
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him appropriated (if any such direction as aforesaid is made by ourt) in the manner directed by the Court.
The balance of such fine, if any, shall be applied as the Governor direct to the payment of the necessary expenses of carrying this mance into execution, and for such local purposes as the Governor determine.
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and Police to-
Ordinance.
It shall be the duty of all watchmen and of all members of the Watchmen ce Force to aid and assist the District and Sub-district Committees assist in carry- Courts in the exercise of the powers and jurisdictions and the perform- ing out the of the duties conferred and imposed upon them by this Ordinance. 28. Every President Chairman, and member of a District or Sub-Penalty for
not Court or Committee, and every watchman, shall be deemed to be bribery. public servant" within the meaning of the Misdemeanors Punish-
Ordinance, 1898, and the provisions of that Ordinance shall be No. 1 of 1898. hed in every respect as if such President, Chairman, member, or ohman had been included in the definition of a public servant con- med in that Ordinance.
contributions on inhabitants
(1.) Where, in the opinion of the Governor, there is an undue Levying of valence of crime in any District or Sub-district, or any District or b-district Committee appears to him to be unable to or to fail to intain peace and good order in such District or Sub-district, it shall lawful for the Governor to station Police or extra Police in such istrict or Sub-district, and to order the levy of a special rate upon such
rict or Sub-district, to an amount sufficient to defray the whole or joy see portion of the cost of such Police.
(2) When the levying of any such special rate is ordered by the vernor, he may, by such order, specify the procedure by which pay it of such rate may be enforced summarily by a Magistrate, and all gistrates shall have jurisdiction so to enforce the same accordingly.
ORDINANCE No. 8 OF 1899.
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where extra crime requires extra Police. provision of
Realed of substituted by
ORDINANCE to provide for the Better Regulation of the A.D. 1899. New Territories.
[18th April, 1899.]
Ordinance No. 12 of 1899
it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows
This Ordinance may be cited as the New Territories (Regulation) Short title
ance, 1899.
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