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No. 10.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG : [A.D. 1886.
ORDINANCE No. 10 OF 1886.
A.D. 1886. AN ORDINANCE to make provision for the Preservation of the Public Peace.
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Peace Preservation Ordinance, 1886.
PART I.
SPECIAL CONSTABLES.
2. Whenever it appears to the Governor that any tumult or riot has taken place or may be reasonably apprehended, and that the ordinary officers appointed for preserving the peace are not sufficient for the preservation of the peace, it shall be lawful for the Governor to authorize any Magistrate to summon, by writing in the Form No. 1 in the Schedule to this Ordinance, before him, any number of persons resident or being then within the Colony, then and there to be appointed and to act as special constables within the Colony, so long as the said authority remains in force: Provided that it shall be lawful for the said Magistrate, if it appears to him, upon the oath of any person, that there is good and sufficient cause to believe that any person intended to be appointed a special constable is concealing himself in order to avoid service of the summons or that he is likely to disobey the same, to issue a warrant, in the Form No. 2 in the said Schedule, in the first instance, for the purpose of bringing before him such person so to be appointed.
3. Every special constable shall have the same powers for the preservation of the peace, the prevention of offences, the apprehension of offenders, and for all other purposes, and the same privileges, protection, and immunities, as the members of the Police Force enrolled under the Police Ordinance for the time being in force, except as to pay and pension or other reward, and shall be subject to the orders of the Governor, the Magistrates, the Captain Superintendent of Police, and any one or more Justices of the Peace for the Colony, who shall be authorized by the Governor to act in that behalf.
4. Any person required to serve as a special constable under this Ordinance who refuses or otherwise omits, without reasonable excuse, to appear as a special constable shall, on summary conviction before a Magistrate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, or to ...
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No. 10.] THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG : [A.D. 1886.
ORDINANCE No. 10 OF 1886.
A.D. 1886. AN ORDINANCE to make provision for the Preservation of the
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Ordinance
No. 15 of 1886,
with Ordi-
nance No. 18 of 1890 incor- porated.
Short title.
Power to
Governor to
appoint special constables in case of tumult, etc.
1 & 2 Will. 4 c. 41 s. 1.
Schedule:
Form No. 1:
Public Peace.
BE
[2nd June, 1886.]
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the
Legislative Council thereof, as follows :---
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Peace Preservation. Ordinance,
1886.
PART I.
SPECIAL CONSTABLES,
2. Whenever it appears to the Governor that any tumult or riot has taken place or may be reasonably apprehended, and that the ordinary officers appointed for preserving the peace are not sufficient for the preservation of the peace, it shall be lawful for the Governor to authorize any Magistrate to summon, by writing in the Form No. 1 in the Schedule to this Ordinance, before him, any number of persons resident or being then within the Colony, then and there to be appointed and to act as special constables within the Colony, so long as the said authority remains in force: Provided that it shall be lawful for the said Magis- trate, if it appears to him, upon the oath of any person, that there is good and sufficient cause to believe that any person intended to be appointed a special constable is concealing himself in order to avoid service of the summons or that he is likely to disobey the same, to issue a warrant, in the Form No. 2 in the said Schedule, in the first instance, for the purpose of bringing before him such person so to be appointed.
3. Every special constable shall have the same powers for the pre- servation of the peace, the prevention of offences, the apprehension of offenders, and for all other purposes, and the same privileges, protection. and immunities, as the members of the Police Force enrolled under the Police Ordinance for the time being in force, except as to pay and No.11 of 1900. pension or other reward, and shall be subject to the orders of the Governor, the Magistrates, the Captain Superintendent of Police, and any one or more Justices of the Peace for the Colony, who shall be authorized by the Governor to act in that behalf.
Form No. 2.
Powers of special constable. 1b. s. 5.
See Ordina wee
Punishment for refusing to appear as special cons- table. 10. 8. 7.
4. Any person required to serve as a special constable under this Ordinance who refuses or otherwise omits, without reasonable excuse, to appear as a special constable shall, on summary conviction before a Magis- trate, be liable to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, or to
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