THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH MAY, 1891.
No. 7 OF 1891.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, entitled The Gam- bling Ordinance, 1891.
LS
G. WILLIAM DES VIEUX,
Governor,
[6th May, 1891.]
WE
HEREAS it is expedient to consolidate and amend the law relating to gambling, common gaming houses and lotteries.
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 Gambling Ordinance, 1891.
2. The word Street shall include any road, lane, alley or passage.
The word Place, as used in this Ordinance, shall mean and include any house, room, office, agency, boat, vehicle or vessel, or any erection moveable or otherwise, or any spot on land or water.
The word Gambling as used in this Ordinance shall
apply to and include lotteries.
Lottery includes any game, method or device whereby money or money's worth is distributed or allotted in any manner depending upon or to be deter- mined by chance or lot or the result of any race or contest whether the same be held, drawn, exer- cised or managed within or without the Colony.
A place in which lottery tickets are sold, procured or distributed or any place in which money or money's worth in connection with a lottery is paid or distributed, shall be deemed to be kept for the purpose of a lottery."
The expression implements or appliances of gambling include all articles which are used in or for the purpose of gambling or a lottery.
The expression common gaming house shall mean and
include any place opened, kept or used—
(A.) For playing therein at any game of chance
or any mixed game of chance and skill
(1.) In which a bank is kept by one or more of the players exclusively of the other or others or
(2.) In which the chances of the game are not alike favourable to all the play- ers, including among the players the banker or other person by whom the game is managed or against whom the players stake play or bet
or
(3.) In which any commission, or per- centage is charged in connection with the game, the stakes or the winnings
(B.) For the purpose of a lottery or lotteries.
3. A place which is used as an ordinary social club to which the public at large have not access shall nevertheless be deemed a common gaming house if kept or used either for the playing of any of the games mentioned in A or for the purpose mentioned in B in section 2.
Title.
Interpretation clause,
Clubs used as gaming houses,
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