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ORDINANCE No. 8 of 1882 . 1645


Banishment and Conditional Pardons.


Court of competent jurisdiction , suffer such term of imprisonment , with
or without hard labour, or penal servitude , as the Governor may think fit .


6. If any offender to whom a pardon has been granted either before Breach of
conditional
or after the passing of this Ordinance, on the condition of his quitting pardon.
the Colony, be afterwards found at large therein without lawful authority
or excuse, the proof whereof shall lie upon him , he shall be guilty of a
felony or of a misdemeanor, according to the nature of the offence for
which he received such conditional pardon , and shall , on conviction , be
liable, to any sentence not exceeding the whole of his original or
commuted sentence, such sentence to commence from the date at which
he is tried and convicted under this Ordinance : Provided that in all cases

in which the prisoner when brought before a Magistrate upon such charge
shall plead guilty thereto , it shall be lawful for the Magistrate to deal
summarily with the case, and to remit him to gaol to undergo any sentence
not exceeding the whole of his original or commuted sentence , instead of
committing him for trial at the Supreme Court.

7. If it appears fit to the Governor in Council, the Governor in Power of
Governor to
Council may issue a new order of banishment against any person who issue new
order of
has been convicted of an offence against section 4 of this Ordinance, and banishment.
such order shall commence to take effect during or at the expiration of any

term of imprisonment to which the prisoner has been sentenced.

8. If it appears fit to the Governor in Council , the Governor in Power to
banish for
Council may issue an order of banishment against any person who has offence
against sec. 6.
been convicted of an offence against section 6 of this Ordinance, and such
order shall commence to take effect during or at the expiration of any
term of imprisonment to which the prisoner has been sentenced .

9. Any person who knowingly harbours or conceals in the Colony Harbouring
banished
of Hongkong, any person whose banishment has been ordered , shall , on persons.
conviction thereof before a Magistrate, be liable to a fine not exceeding

fifty dollars, or in default of payment, to be imprisoned with or without
hard labour, for any term not exceeding six months .

10. The following enactments are hereby repealed , viz . : — Repe ds.

Ordinance 14 of 1845 , -Section 2 , sub-section 17 , from the words
"shall beg," to the words " alms or,"
inclusive .