THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 31, 1918.
HONGKONG.
No. 6 of 1918.
LS
I assent to this Ordinance.
F. H. MAY,
Governor.
31st May, 1918.
An Ordinance to amend further the Summary
Offences Ordinance, 1845.
[31st May, 1918.]
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 Short title Offences Amendment Ordinance, 1918, and shall be and con- read and construed as one with the Summary Offences struction. Ordinance, 1845, hereinafter called the principal Ordi- Ordinances nance, and with the Summary Offences Amendment Nos. I of
1845 and 1 Ordinance, 1913, and the said Ordinances and this of 1913. Ordinance may be cited together as the Summary Offences Ordinances, 1845 to 1918.
2. Section 2 of the principal Ordinance is amended Amendment by the addition at the end thereof of the following of Ordinance definition-
"Public place" includes all piers, thoroughfares. streets, roads, lanes, alleys, courts, squares, archways, passages; paths, ways and places to which the public have access either continu- ously or periodically, whether the same are the property of the Crown or of private persons.
No. 1 of 1845, s. 2.
3. Section 3 of the principal Ordinance is amended Amendment as follows:
of Ordinance No. 1 of..
(a) The figures "50" in the first line thereof are 1845, s. 3.
deleted and the words "two hundred and fifty"
are substituted therefor.
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(b) The words "in any thoroughfare or public place or place adjacent thereto in the second line thereof are deleted.
(c) Paragraph (1) is amended as follows:-
() by the deletion of the words of the
roads streets ways or public passages in the third and fourth lines thereof and by the substitution therefor of the words "public place, or on any Govern- ment property unless with the consent of a public officer, or on any private property unless with the consent of the owner and of the occupier (if any) of such private property ";
(i) by the deletion of the words
City of
Victoria" in the twelfth line thereof and by the substitution therefor of the word "Colony ";
(iii) by the deletion of the words to the harbour" in the thirteenth line thereof and by the substitution therefor of the word "thereto ".
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