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A BILL
INTITULED
Short title.
Endeavour- ing to seduce
members of His
Majesty's
forces etc., from their
duty or allegiance. 24 & 25 Cleo. 5, c. 56, s. 1.
Prevention and
detection
of offences.
24 & 25
Geo. 5,
c. 56, s. 2.
An Ordinance to make better provision for the prevention and punishment of endeavours to seduce members of His Majesty's forces, or any member of any local Naval, Military or Police force, corps or reserve, from their duty, or from their allegiance to His Majesty.
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 Incitement to Disaffection Ordinance, 1939.
2. If any person maliciously and advisedly endeavours to seduce any member of His Majesty's forces, or any member of any local Naval, Military or Police force, corps or reserve, from his duty, or from his allegiance to His Majesty, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance.
3.—(1) If any person, with intent to commit or to aid, abet, counsel or procure the commission of an offence under section 2 of this Ordinance, has in his possession or under his control any document of such a nature that the dissemination of copies thereof among members of His Majesty's forces, or of the forces, corps, or reserves mentioned in section 2, would constitute such an offence, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance.
(2) If a magistrate is satisfied by information on oath that there is reasonable ground for suspecting that an offence under this Ordinance has been committed, and that evidence of the commission thereof is to be found at any premises or place specified in the information, he may on an application made by a police officer, grant a search warrant authorizing any such officer as aforesaid named in the warrant to enter the premises or place, with such assistance as may be necessary, and if necessary by force, and to search the premises or place and every person found therein, and to seize anything found on the premises or place or on any such person which the officer has reasonable ground for suspecting to be evidence of the commission of such an offence as aforesaid,
(3) No woman shall, in pursuance of a warrant issued under the last foregoing sub-section, be searched except by
a woman.