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Short title.
Definitions.
Seditious intention.
A BILL
[No. 11-23.6.38.-4.]
INTITULED
An Ordinance to make better provision for the prevention and
punishment of sedition.
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 Sedition Ordinance, 1938.
2. In this Ordinance-
"Publication" includes all written or printed matter and everything, whether of a nature similar to written or printed matter or not, containing any visible representation, or by its form, shape, or in any manner capable of suggesting words or ideas, and every copy and reproduction of any publication;
"Seditious publication" means a publication having a seditious intention;
"Seditious words" means words having a seditious
intention:
"Import" includes to bring or cause to be brought into the Colony.
3.-(1) A "seditions intention" is an intention-
(i) to bring into hatred or contempt or to excite dis- affection against the person of His Majesty, His heirs or successors, or the Government of the Colony as by law established; or
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(ii) to excite His Majesty's subjects or inhabitants of the Colony to attempt to procure the alteration, otherwise than by lawful means, of any other matter in the Colony as by law established; or
(iii) to bring into hatred or contempt or to excite dis- affection against the administration of justice in the Colony; or
(iv) to raise discontent or disaffection amongst His Majesty's subjects or inhabitants of the Colony; or
(v) to promote feelings of ill-will and hostility between different classes of the population of the Colony; or
(vi) to endeavour to seduce any member of His Majesty's forces from his duty or allegiance to His Majesty.
But it is not a seditious intention-
(a) to show that His Majesty has been misled or mistaken in any of his measures; or
(b) to point out errors or defects in the government or constitution of the Colony as by law established or in legislation or in the administration of justice with a view to the remedying of such errors or defects; or
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