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ORDINANCE No. 18 or 1885 . 1899


Frison.


No. 18 of 1885 .

An Ordinance entitled The Prison Ordinance, 1885. [See Amend
ment Ordi
nance No. 13
[ 16th November, 1885. ] of1889. ]

E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the
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Legislative Council thereof, as follows :

1. The Governor may from time to time make , and when made alter Governor
may make
or revoke, orders for any of the following purposes, viz. : — orders in
certain
matters .
(a. ) To set apart any available sites and buildings for the
purpose of a prison .

(b . ) To discontinue the use of any prison and appropriate the
site and buildings thereof to any other lawful purpose .

(c.) To remove prisoners from one prison to another.

(d.) To appoint fit persons to be respectively superintendents
of prisons , chaplains and surgeons, and such subordi

nate officers for the service of prisons as the Governor
may think necessary, and to remove such persons from

their offices , and to regulate the salaries to be paid to
such persons .


2. The site and buildings and prison known as Victoria Gaol at the Victoria Gaol
deemed a
time of the coming into operation of this Ordinance shall be deemed to prison.
be a prison duly set apart under section 1 of this Ordinance .

3. The Superintendent and officers of Victoria Gaol at the time of Present
officers to be
the commencement of this Ordinance shall be deemed to be duly appointed deemed ap
pointed under
under section 1 of this Ordinance. But such officers shall hold their this Ordi
nance.
offices by the same tenure, and upon like terms and conditions , as if this
Ordinance had not passed .

4. Prisoners shall be under the control of superintendents of prisons Superintend
ents.
assisted by the prison officers appointed thereto under the provisions of
this Ordinance.

5. A prisoner shall be deemed to be in legal custody whenever he Custody of
prisoners.
is being taken to or from or whenever he is confined in any prison in
which he may be lawfully confined , or whenever he is working outside
or is otherwise beyond the walls of any such prison in the custody or
under the control of a prison officer belonging to such prison , and any