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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.
No. S. 427.-The following Bill was read a first time at a Meeting of the Council held on the 19th December, 1912-
Short title.
Repeal of
section 13 of
Ordinance No 1 of 1845 and substitu- tion of a new section therefor.
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to amend the Summary Offences
Ordinance, 1845.
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 Summary Offences Amendment Ordinance, 1918.
2. Section 18 of the Summary Offences Ordinance, 1845, is hereby repealed and the following section sub- stituted therefor :-
“13.—(1.) No person shail, between sunset and the hour of six in the following morning, make or cause or permit to be made or caused any noise whatsoever calculated to disturb or interfere with the public tranquillity or calculated to disturb or annoy any person.
(2.) Any person who shall contravene any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of au offence and shall be liable upon summary conviction before a Magistrate to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars or in default of payment thereof to imprisonment with or with- out hard labour for any term not exceeding three months.
(3.) This section shall apply only to such districts as the Governor-in-Council may direct by notification in the Gazette."
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Objects and Reasons.
The object of this Bill is to enable the provisions of sec- tion 13 of the Summary Offences Ordinance, 1845, which deal with the prevention of unseemly noises at night but which are restricted in their operation to the Town of Victoria, to be extended to other areas which are now centres of population and in which it is desirable that some such similar law should be in operation.
JOHN A. BUCKNILL, Attorney General.
NOTICES.
COLONIAL SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT.
No. S. 428-Statement of Sanitary Measures adopted against Hongkong.
Place or Port.
Nature of Measures.
Date.
Reference to Govern- ment Noti-
fication.
Orissa.
Plague Regulations imposed in Orissa Ports against arrivals
from Hongkong.
23rd Feb., 1912.
No. S. 54.
20th December, 1912.
A. M. THOMSON,
Colonial Secretary.