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A BILL
INTITULED
[No. 49-4.12.35.-2.]
An Ordinance to amend the Gambling Ordinance, 1891.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Gambling Amend- Short title. ment Ordinance, 1936.
of long
2. The long title of the Gambling Ordinance, 1891, is Amendment amended by the insertion of the words "betting, gaming", title of after the word "gambling" in the second line.
Ordinance
No. 2 of 1891.
3. Section 2 of the Gambling Ordinance, 1891, is Amendment amended-
(i) in paragraph (a) thereof by the substitution of a semi-colon and the word "or" for the full stop after the word "lotteries" in sub-paragraph (2) and by the addition of the following new sub-paragraph :----
of Ordinance No. 2 of 1891, s. 2.
Vict. c. 119, s. 1.
(3) for the purpose of betting with persons resorting of 16 & 17 thereto; or for the purpose of any money or valuable thing being received as or for the consideration for any assurance, undertaking, promise, or agreement, express or implied, to pay or give thereafter any money or valuable thing on any event or contingency of or relating to any horse race, or pony race, or other race, fight, game, sport, or exercise, or as or for the consideration for, securing the paying or giving of any money or valuable thing on any such event or contingency.
(ii) by the addition after paragraph (b) thereof of the following new paragraph:-
(bb) "Gaming" applies to and includes the playing of any of the Games mentioned in paragraph (1) of the definition of "Common gaming house".
No. 2 of
4. Section 3 of the Gambling Ordinance, 1891, is Amendment amended by the addition of the words ", or for any of the of Ordinance purposes mentioned in paragraph (3) of that definition" after 1891, s. 3. the word "definition" at the end thereof.
No. 2 of
s. 7 (1).
5. Section 7 (1) of the Gambling Ordinance, 1891, is Amendment amended by the substitution of a semi-colon and the word of Ordinance "or" for the comma after the word "ticket" in paragraph 1891, (b) and by the addition of the following new paragraph :--
(c) makes any bet in a common gaming house; or pays or receives any money or valuable thing in a common gaming house for any of the considerations mentioned in sub- paragraph (3) of paragraph (a) of section 2.