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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MARCH 8, 1912.
HONGKONG.
No. 3 of 1912.
An Ordinance to amend the law relating to the
Registration of Births and Deaths.
LS
F. D. LUGARD,
Governor.
[8th March, 1912.]
Short title.
Amends Ordinance No. 7 of 1896 as amended
by Ordinance
No. 15 of 1909.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Births and Deaths Registration Amendment Ordinance, 1912.
2. The Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance, 1896, as amended by the Public Service Transfer of Duties Ordinance, 1909, is hereby further amended in section 4 thereof by the deletion of the words "shall be a registrar' and by the substitution therefor of the words "and the principal clerk at every Public Dispensary shall be re- gistrars".
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 7th day of March, 1912.
C. CLEMENTI,
Clerk of Councils,
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 8th day of March, 1912.
CLAUD SEVERN,
Colonial Secretary.
HONGKONG.
No. 4 OF 1912.
An Ordinance to amend the Gambling Ordin-
ance, 1891.
F. D. LUGARD,
LS
Governor.
[8th March, 1912.]
Short title.
Amends Or-
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Gambling Amendment Ordinance, 1912.
2. The Gambling Ordinance, 1891, is hereby amended dinance No. by the repeal of section 7 thereof and by the substitution
2 of 1891.
therefor of the following section :--
"7.-(1.) Every person who:-
(a.) plays in a common gaming house, or
(6.) buys any lottery ticket ;
shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine
not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
(2.) Every person who sells or has in his possession with a view to sale any lottery ticket shall be liable ou sinnary conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.
(3.) Any person found in a common gaming house or found escaping therefrom on the occasion of its being entered under this Ordinance shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, to be ap
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