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446 ORDINANCES Nos . 1 AND 2 OF 1860 .


Conditional Pardons. Jurors and Witnesses.


No. 1 of 1860 .

[See Ords. No. 7
of 1870, and No. 5 An Ordinance empowering His Excellency the Governor to grant
of 1871.]
Conditional Pardons in certain cases.

[ 3rd March, 1860. ]
Preamble. HEREAS it is expedient to empower His Excellency the Governor to grant
W conditional pardons, in accordance with the terms of the Royal Charter of the

Colony of Hongkong : Be it therefore enacted and ordained by His Excellency the
Governor of Hongkong , with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as
follows :

Governor may 1. It shall be lawful for His Excellency the Governor to grant to any offender
grant pardons
subject to condi convicted of any crime, a pardon subject to either of the following conditions, as the
tion of offenders
leaving the
Colony, &c. case may be ; that such offender shall quit the Colouy of Hongkong and not afterwards
be found at large therein ; or, that such offender shall, in lieu of the sentence of death
which may have been passed upon or recorded against him, by any Court of competent
jurisdiction , suffer such term of imprisonment or penal servitude as His Excellency may
think fit.

Offenders who 2. Should any offender to whom a pardon has been granted on condition of his
have received a
conditional quitting the Colony be afterwards found at large therein, contrary to such condition it
pardon if found
in the Colony
may be commit shall be lawful for any Police officer to apprehend such offender and convey him before
ted for the re
mainder of their a Magistrate, who shall make out a warrant, under his hand and seal, for the
originalsentence.
recommitment of such offender to prison, there to undergo the residue of his original
sentence, as if no pardon had been granted . [ Repealed by Ordinances Nos. 7 and 16 of
1870 and by No. 5 of 1871.]



[All repealed by Ordinances Nos. 8 of 1876, & 8 of 1882. ]




No. 2 of 1860 .


An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to Jurors and Wit
nesses .

[ 3rd March, 1860. ]

E it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hong
BE
kong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as
follows :