Hong Kong Ordinances

MAGISTRATES ORDINANCE - SECT 61

Exercise on complaint of power to bind over to keep the peace

Recognizances, etc.

(1) The power of a magistrate, on complaint of any person, to adjudge a person
to enter into a recognizance and find sureties to keep the peace or to be of
good behaviour towards such first-mentioned person shall be exercised by an
order upon complaint, and the provisions of this Ordinance shall apply
accordingly, and the complainant and defendant and witnesses may be called and
examined and cross-examined, and the complainant and defendant shall be
subject to costs, as in the case of any other complaint. (See Forms 34-36)

(2) The magistrate may order the defendant, in default of compliance with such
last-mentioned order, to be imprisoned for 6 months. (Amended 30 of 1958
Schedule) [cf. 1879 c. 49 s. 25 U.K.]