1216 THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 6rH DECEMBER, 1890.
Penalty for keeping a
Common gaming Jomso.
Straits Ord. 5 of 1968, s. 7. l'enally for playing in a cotomion
gaming house.
Advancing money for purpose of gaming.
17 and 18 Vict. c. 32, 4. 1, and
Strades Ord.
No. 5 of 1888. ษ. 5
Penalty In
Fespect of
lotteries, &c. Straits Ord. 5 of 1988, R.
Faslice of Peace may
enter or authorize
entry of any common
gaming acuse
and seize implement and persons.
Ord. 27 of 1448, . 1.]
What shall ba deemed evidence of gaming.
8 and 9 Viet. e. 109, s. 8.
Penalty on persons
obstructing entry of Constables.
17 and 18 Vict. c. 39, s. 1.
7. The keeper of any place opened, kept or used as a common gaming house or for the purpose of a lottery shall be liable on summary conviction before a Magistrate 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 shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars.
A person found in a cominon 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 gambling in any common gaming house or for the purpose of establishing or conducting a common gaming house or a lottery shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.
10. Any person who
or
(a.) declares, or exhibits expressly or otherwise the winner or winning number ticket lot figure design symbol or other result of any lottery:
(.) 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 a lottery or any announcement relating to a lot- tery; or (c.) announces or publishes or causes to be announce.l 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 or for the purpose of a lottery shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a period not exceeding 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 be credibly informed on oath or shall have reasonable grounds of his own knowledge to suspect and believe is kept or used as a common gaming house and to arrest such persons as may be found therein, and to seize all cards, dice, balls, counters, tables, lottery tickets or other implements of gambling or which may be used as such and also all monies or securi- ties 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 for- feited to Her Majesty the Queen, her heirs and successors, 12. Where any cards, dice, balls, counters, tables, lottery tickets, books or other implements of gambling shall be found in any place suspected to be opened, kept or used as a common gambling house and entered under a warrant issued under the provisions of this Ordinance, or about the person of any of these 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 imple- ments 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- rant under this Ordinance to enter any place, from enter- ing the same 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