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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH MAY, 1891.
Keeper defined.
17 & 18 Vict.
c. 38 s. 4.
Proof of
gaming for money not necessary.
8 and 9 Vict.
c. 109, 5.
Penalty on owner of house permitting same to bo used.
17 and 18 Vict. c. 38, s. 4.
Penalty for keeping a
common
gaming
house.
Penalty for playing in a
common
gaming house.
Advancing money for purpose of gaming.
17 and 18 Vict.
c. 38, . 4, and Straits Ord.
No. 5 of 1888, *. 6
Penalty ju respect of lotteries, &c. Straits Ord. 5 of 1888, s.
Justice of Peace may enter or authorize entry of any common
gaming house and seize implement and persons. [Ord. 9 of 1876, s. 7.3
4. Keeper shall mean and include the occupier, or person having the use temporarily, of any common gaming house
or
Any person having or appearing to have the care or management of such place and also any person who shall act in any manner assisting in conducting the business of any such place or keeping watch in or about the same.
5. In case of any complaint laid under this Ordinance, it shall not be necessary to prove that any person found playing at any game was playing for any money, wager or stake.
6. Any person being the owner of any place who shall knowingly permit the same to be opened, kept, or used by another person as a common gaming house shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars: Provided that no prosecution against an owner under this section shall be commenced without the fiat of the Attorney General.
The expression owner as used in this section shall meau and include the holder of any tenement direct from the Crown, whether under lease, licence, or otherwise; or the immediate landlord of any tene- ment, or the agent of any such holder or landlord who is absent or under disability.
7. The keeper of a common gaming house shall be liable on summary conviction to fine or imprisonment (with or without hard labour) or both: Provided that such fine shall in no case exceed the sum of one thousand dollars and that the aggregate term of imprisonment imposed whether for default in payment of the fine or otherwise shall in no case exceed the term of nine months.
8. Any person playing in a common gaming house or selling or buying or in any way dealing in lottery tickets shall be liable ou summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
A person found in a common gaming house or found escaping therefrom on the occasion of its being entered under this Ordinance shall be presumed until the contrary be proved to be or to have been playing therein.
9. Any person who shall furnish or advance money for the purpose of gaming in any common gaming house or for the purpose of establishing or conducting a common gaming house or a lottery shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.
10. Any person who
(a.) declares, or exhibits expressly or otherwise the winner or winning number ticket lot figure design symbol or other result of any lottery;
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(b.) writes, prints, or publishes or causes to be written printed or published any lottery ticket or list of prizes or any announcement of the result of á lottery or any announcement relating to a lot- tery; or
(c.) announces or publishes or causes to be announced or published either orally or by means of any print, writing, design, sign, or otherwise that any place is opened, kept, or used as a common gaming house shall be liable on summary cou- viction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a period not ex- ceeding three months.
11. It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace or Constable or Officer of the Police duly authorized by war- rant of any Justice of the Peace (which shall be in the form in the schedule hereto) with such assistants as may be necessary, to enter and if necessary to break into any place which such Justice of the Peace shall from sworn information or of his own knowledge have reasonable grounds to suspect and believe to be a common gaining house and to arrest such persous as may be found therein, and to seize all cards, dicc, balls, counters, tables, lottery tickets or other implements of gambling or which may be used as such and also all monies or securities for money which shall be either in actual use for the purpose of gambling or be found upon the persons of the keepers of such place and the said implements of gambling and money or securities for money, on conviction of the offender, shall be and they are hereby declared to be forfeited to Her Majesty the Queen, her heirs
and successors.