Peace and loving of good Behaviour; ind in case of any Felony, punishable under this Ordinance, otherwise then with Death the Court may, if it still think fit, reap into the Offender to enter into his own Recognizances and to find Sureties, both or either, for keeping the Peace, in addition to any Punishment by this Ordinance authorized: Provided that no Person shall be imprisoned for not finding Sureties under this Section for any Period exceeding One Year.
No Summary Conviction or Warrant to be quashed for want of Form. 66. No Summary Conviction under this Ordinance shall be quashed for Want of Form or be removed by Certiorari, and no Warrant of Commitment shall be held void by reason of any Defect therein, provided it be therein alleged that the Party has been convicted, and there be a good and valid Conviction to sustain the same.
Procedure in cases of Summary Conviction. 67. Every Offence under this Ordinance made punishable on Summary Conviction by a Police Magistrate shall be prosecuted, tried and determined in all respects in the Manner directed by Ordinance No. 10 of 1844, and all Provisions contained in the said Ordinance shall be applicable to such Prosecutions in the same Manner as if they were incorporated in this Ordinance: Provided that nothing in this Ordinance contained shall, in any Manner than otherwise than as respects the Punishment, alter or affect any Enactment now in Force relating to Procedure in the Case of any Offence punishable on Summary Conviction or the Recovery or Application of any Penalty or forfeiture for any such Offence.
Commencement of Ordinance. 68. This Ordinance shall commence and take effect on the Fourteenth Day of June, in the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty-Five.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 2nd Day of June, 1865.
I. d'ALAMADA e CASTRO
Clerk of Councils.
