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936 15 of 1887. HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANK .
( 16 of 1887. ) WHIPPING .

Continuance
for a further 1. The company shall continue incorporated and shall carry
term of 21 on the business of banking under the provisions and conditions
years. contained in The Hongkong and Shanghai Bank Ordinance as
amended by Ordinance No. 21 of 1882 for the further term of
twenty-one years commencing from the 14th day of August,
1887 .
Ordinances ő
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2. Tbis ordinance and The Ilongkong and Shanghai Bank
1882, andthis Ordinance as amended by Ordinance No. 21 of 1882 shall be
ordinance to read together and construed as one ordinance .
be read as one
ordinance .
Suspending 3. This ordinance shall not come into operation unless and
clause .
until the Officer Administering the Government notifies by
proclamation that it is Her Majesty's pleasure not to disallow
the same and thereafter it shall come into operation upon such
day as the Officer Administering the Government shall notify
by the same or any other proclamation.
[ Confirmation proclaimed 16th August, 1887 : but no day notified from the
coming into operation of the ordinance .]



No. 16 OF 1887.
An Ordinance empowering the Courts to award Whip
ping as a further punishment for certain Crimes.
[24th June, 1887. ]
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Power to 1. If any person shall be convicted of a crime who at the
awardpunish-
ment of
time of the commission thereof shall have been armed with any
whipping in offensive weapon or instrument, or
cases hcrcin
namet. If any person shall be convicted
[ No. 12 of
1865. ] (a.a ) of any felony not punishable with death , committed
7 and 8 Geo .
IV , ch . 28 , after tio previous convictions for felony, and the
sec. 2 . sentence for each of which has been at least six
months'imprisonment with hard labour, or
( 6. ) of any crime under sections 32 , 33 , 34, 35 and 36 of
Ordinance 7 of 1865, or
( c . ) of piracy, or
( d .) of indecent assault,
the Supreme Court may in addition to the punishments awarded
for such crimes direct that the offender if aa male be once, twice
or thrice privately whipped.