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ORDINANCE No. 12 OF 1845 . 151


Triad and Secret Societies.


No. 12 of 1845.

An Ordinance to amend Ordinance No. 1 of 1845 , entitled " An Ordinance Title.

for the Suppression of the Triad and other secret Societies in the
Island of Hongkong and its Dependencies. "

[ 20th October, 1845. ]

HEREAS it is deemed expedient to amend the said Ordinance No. 1 of 1845 , Preamble.
Wwith a view to introducing certain limitations, and giving additional certainty to
its provisions :

1. Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Operation of
Ordinance No. 1
Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, that no person or persons of 1845 limited to
certain cases .
shall be considered as coming within the provisions or intent of the before mentioned
Ordinance, No. 1 of 1845, who shall have joined the Triad society in ignorance of its
designs , or under the influence of terror, or who shall not be duly convicted of active
participation in some unlawful act arising out of his or their connexion with the said
society.

2. And be it further enacted and ordained , that so far as the said enactment Convicts to be
marked as in
provides that any offender shall , in addition to the other punishments or penalties the case of
deserters, and
banished from
contained in the said Ordinance, No. 1 of 1845 , be marked on the right cheek, the the Island, at
the discretion of
same be, and is hereby repealed : But it is further provided , that in case of any the Court.
conviction under these ordinances, or either of them, the presiding judge shall in his
discretion have power to direct, as an additional punishment, that after the expiration
of the term of imprisonment to which any such offender or offenders may be subjected,
he or they shall be marked in the manner usual in the case of military deserters ,
under the left arm, and expelled or banished from the said Island for the term of his
or their natural lives. [ Repealed by Ordinance No. 3 of 1881.]

3. And be it further enacted and ordained , that in case any person or persons, Persons return
ing to the Island
after being so sentenced as aforesaid, shall return to the said Island, he or they so after banishment
to be transported
for life to a
returning shall or may be transported for life to such British place or settlement as British
settlement.
shall at the time be provided for the reception of convicts under sentence of
transportation from this Colony. [ Repealed by Ordinance No. 3 of 1881. ]

4. And it is hereby further enacted and ordained, that so far as the said Ordinance, Ordinance No. 1
of 1845 not to
No. 1 of 1845, can be construed to provide any penalty against members of any secret apply to any
society other
than the Triad.
society other than the said Triad society (under that or any other assumed name) , the
same be and is hereby repealed.




[ Repealed by Ordinance No 8 of 1887.]