7 Mar 1973
ATTORNEY GENERAL v. CHONG HON YING
- Citation
- ATTORNEY GENERAL v. CHONG HON YING
- Court
- Court of Appeal
- Case number
- CAAR8/1973
Section 33(1) of the Public Order Ordinance is mandatory and exclusive as to disposition on conviction; a magistrate who records a conviction under that provision must impose either the statutory minimum imprisonment or direct committal to a detention centre. The magistrate's order sending the 15-year-old to a training centre was unauthorized and is set aside; respondent must be sentenced to the statutory minimum imprisonment, subject to any lawful transfer under s7 of the Training Centre Ordinance.