THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 9TH MAY, 1891.
12. Where any cards, dice, balls, counters, tables, lottery tickets, books or other implements of gambling shall be found in any place suspected of being a common gaming house and entered under a warrant issued under the pro- visions of this Ordinance, or about the person of any of those who shall be found therein, it shall be evidence (until the contrary be made to appear) that such place is used as a common gaming house, and that the persons found in the place where such tables or implements of gambling shall have been found were playing therein, although no play was actually going on in the presence of the Constable or Officer entering the same under a warrant issued under the provisions of this Ordinance, or in the presence of any assistants by whom he shall be accom- panied as aforesaid; and it shall be lawful for the Magis- trate before whom any person shall be taken by virtue of the warrant to direct all such implements of gambling to be forfeited or destroyed.
13. Any person who shall wilfully prevent any Justice of the Peace or any Constable or Officer authorized by war- raut under this Ordinance to enter any place, from enter- ing the saine or any part thereof, or who shall obstruct or delay any such Justice of the Peace or Constable or Officer in so entering, and any person who by any bolt, bar, chain, or other contrivance, shall secure any external or internal door of or means of access to any place so authorized to be entered, or shall use any means or contrivance whatsoever for the purpose of preventing, obstructing, or delaying the entry of any Constable or Officer authorized as aforesaid into any such place, or any part thereof, shall be liable on a summary conviction for the same before a Magistrate to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to imprisonment. with or without hard labour not exceeding six months.
14. Where any Constable or Officer authorized under section 11 hereof to outer any place is wilfully prevented from or obstructed or delayed in entering the same or any part thereof, or where any external or internal door of or means of access to any such place so authorized to be entered shall be found to be fitted or provided with any bolt, bar, chain, or any means or contrivance for the purpose of preventing, delaying, or obstructing the entry into the same or any part thereof of any Constable or Officer authorized as aforesaid, or for giving an alarm in case of such entry, or if any such place, is found fitted or provided with any means or contrivance for gaming, or with any means or contrivance for concealing, removing, or destroying any implements of gambling, it shall be evidence until the contrary be made to appear that such place is a common gaming house within the meaning of this Ordinance, and that the persons found therein were unlawfully gaming thereiu.
15. It shall be lawful for any Magistrate before whom shall be brought any persons who may have been found in any place entered in pursuance of section 11 of this Ordi- nance to require any of such persons to be examined on oath and give evidence touching any gaming in any such place or touching any act done for the purpose of preventing, obstructing or delaying the entry into such place or any part thereof, of any Constable or Officer of Police authorized as aforesaid; and no person so required to be examined as a witness shall be excused from being so examined when brought before such Magistrate or from being examined at any subsequent time by or before the same or any other Magistrate or any Court on any proceeding, or the trial of any indictment, information, action, or suit in anywise relating to such unlawful gaming or any such acts as aforesaid, or from answering any question put to him touching the matters aforesaid, on the ground that his evidence will tend to criminate himself; and any such person so required to be examined as a witness who refuses to make oath accordingly, or to answer any such question as aforesaid, shall be subject to be dealt with in all respects as any person appearing as a witness before any Magistrate or Court in obedience to a summons or subpoena, and refus- ing, without lawful cause or excuse, to be sworn or to give evidence, may by law be dealt with.
16. Every person.so required to be examined as a witness as aforesaid, who upon such examination shall make true and faithful discovery to the best of his knowledge of all things as to which he is so examined, shall if the Magistrate or Judge is satisfied that such true and faithful discovery has been made receive from the Magistrate or Judge of the Court by whom he is examined a certificate in
What shall be deemed evidence of gaming
8 and 9 Vict. c. 109, s. 8.
Penalty on persous obstructing entry of Constables. 17 and 18 Vict. c. 33, s. 1.
Obstructing cntry of Constables to be evidences of house being used
as a common gaming house. 17 and 19 Vict. c. 39, s. 2.
Magistrate may require any person apprehended to be sworn and give evidence.
17 & 18 Vict. c. 39, sec. 5.
l'enalty on refusing to be
swornt.
Persons
required to be examined as witnesses, and making a full discovery
to be free from all penalties, Ibil, sec. 39.
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