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ORDINANCE No. 1 OF 1863 . 541


Police Magistrates.


No. 1 of 1863 .
Title.
An Ordinance to amend certain provisions in Ordinance No 6 of 1862 ,
intituled " An Ordinance to abolish the Office of Chief Magistrate,

and to appoint and define the duties of two Police Magistrates ."

[ 6th February, 1863. ]

eted by His Excellency the Acting Governor of Hongkong, with the advice
BR of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :
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1. Section 5 of Ordinance No. 6 of 1862 is hereby repealed . Sec. 5 of
Ordinance No. 6
of 1862 repealed.

2. It shall be competent for a Police Magistrate to award as punishment for any Punishment.

crime or offence imprisonment in any gaol of this Colony for any period not exceeding 1
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six calendar months with or without hard labour or any fine not exceeding fifty dollars
or both fine and imprisonment not exceeding these limits, and it shall be lawful for the
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Magistrate to direct any portion of such imprisonment not exceeding one month in the
whole to be solitary, but that such solitary imprisonment shall not exceed fourteen With or without
solitary confine
ment.
consecutive days, and further when any male offender shall be convicted under the said
or this Ordinance of either of the offences next hereinafter specified a second time or
under aggravated circumstances, that is to say : indecent exposure of his person, in Corporal punish
ment may be
decent assault, assault with intent to rob , assault in a brothel, assault at or in connexion added.

with any riotous assemblage, or for malicious injury to property, it shall be lawful for
the Magistrate to order and direct that in addition to any other punishment to which
such male offender shall be sentenced that such offender shall be once or twice publicly This section to
be construed as
or privately whipped. This section shall be read and construed as if the same had ifit had been
Sec. 5 of No. 6
of 1862.
originally been section 5 of the said Ordinance.
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3. Two Magistrates, sitting together, shall and they are hereby empowered to Stealingfrom the H
person without
hear and determine cases of stealing from the person, whenever such stealing is un kicking or 1
beating triable 1
by two Justices.
accompanied by personal violence by means of kicking or beating ; and in every such 1
case the said Justices may adjudge the offender on conviction to be imprisoned and kept
to hard labour for any term not exceeding two years, or may commit the offender for
trial at the Supreme Court.



[ Repealed by Ordinance No. 16 of 1875. ]
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