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Draft Bill.
No. S. 345.-The following bill is published for general information:-
CS.O. 1075/24.
A BILL
INTITULED
[No. 14:-3.9.30.—1.]
An Ordinance to amen the Gambling Ordi-
nance, 1891.
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 Gambling Short title,
Amendment Ordinance, 1930.
2. Section 2 of the Gambling Ordinance, 1891, is Amendment amended by the insertion after the word contest in of Ordinance paragraph (f) thereof of the words :-
other than sweepstakes conducted in accord- ance with the provisions of section 18 of this Ordinance,
No. 2 of 1891, s. 2.
3. The following new section shall be inserted in the Adds a new Gambling Ordinance, 1891, as section 18 thereof :—
Club sweep- stakes on horses and pony races.
section to
Ordinance
18.—(1) Ordinary social or sporting clubs No. 2 of in the Colony may, with the approval in writ- 1891. ing of the Inspector General of Police, conduet sweepstakes on horse or pony races provided that the following conditions are observed :----- (a) Not less than ninety per cent., or in the case of a club organising the race not less than eighty per cent. of the total subscription shall be devoted to prizes for the subscribers.
(b) Except in the case of pari-mutuel or cash-sweep tickets sold by the club organizing the race on the premises of the race course during the meeting at which the race takes place to persons attending such meeting, no tickets shall be sold; but, subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), the chances shall be allocated only to members or subscri- bers of the club conducting the sweep- stakes, who shall sign their names to numbers on lists in the premises of the club to which they belong.
(c) No hawking of chances or advertise- ments of the sweepstakes shall be per- mitted.
(2) Ordinary social or sporting clubs in the Colony may with like approval and subject to the like conditions provide lists of numbers for their members and subscribers as agents for any other approved club or clubs, whether within the Colony or elsewhere.
Objects and Reasons.
The object of this Ordinance is to give conditional legal sanction to the ordinary club sweepstakes conducted on horse or pony races which it has hitherto been the practice to ignore though illegal under the existing Gambling Ordinance. The sanction is limited to horse and
pony races as it is considered undesirable to give a general per- mission which may en ourage new forms of sweepstakes.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
August, 1930.