THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 16TH APRIL, 1887.
unlawful.
3. All meetings of the said Societies are hereby declared Meetings to be unlawful and prohibited accordingly.
And if at any such meeting and oath or any engagement, obligation or promise relating to the objects of any unlawful Society be administered or tendered to any person such tendering or administering of any oath, engagement obligation or promise shall be prima facie evidence that the meeting is a meeting of an unlawful Society.
4. It shall be lawful for any Magistrate or Justice of the Peace to enter with or without assistance or to order any Police Officer or other person, in his presence, or by warrant under his hand and seal to enter with or without. assistance, using force in either case if necessary, into any dwelling-house or other building, or into any place in which he may have reasonable ground to believe that a meeting of any Society declared by this Ordinance to be an unlaw- ful Society is being held, or that five or more persons belonging to any such unlawful Society are assembled, and to arrest or cause to be arrested all
found at persons any such meeting, and to search the premises and seize or cause to be seized all books, papers, documents, flags, insignia, arms and other articles which he may have reasonable cause to believe to belong to any such Society, or to be in any way connected with the purposes of the meeting.
5. All persons so arrested and all articles so seized may be detained in custody till they can conveniently be brought before a Magistrate, where they shall be dealt with accord- ing to law.
6. If, on any such entry copies of any Rules or Regula- tions or engagements, obligations or promises, or lists or names of members of any unlawful Society, or if any insignia, banners, writings, paintings, drawings or other articles relating or belonging to any unlawful Society be found, the finding thereof or the fact of an oath or an engagement, obligation, or promise having been adminis- tered or tendered at the meeting shall be prima facie evidence that the meeting was a meeting of an unlawful Society.
7. Any person attending a meeting of an unlawful Society knowing that such meeting was a meeting of an unlawful Society, and any person continuing to attend such meeting after having been warned by any Magistrate, Justice of the Peace, or Police Officer that the meeting is a meeting of an unlawful Society, shall be liable on sum- mary conviction to a penalty not exceeding one hundred dollars, or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for any period not exceeding six months, or to both.
Magistrate, &c., may enter house, &c., where unlaw. ful meeting held. (Straits Settlement Ord. 19 of 1869, 8, 8.)
And may arrest and
scize persons and property found.
Persons and property so seized to be, taken before Magistrate. (Straite Settle- ments Ord. 19 of 1869, s. 9.)
What to be deemed prima facie evidence of unlawful assembly. (Straits Settle- ment Ord 19 of 1869, s. 10.)
Penalty for attending unlawful assembly. (Straits Settlement Ord. 19 of 1569 s. 11.)
Persons allow- ing unlawful assembly in their premises. (Straits Settle- ment Ord. 19
8. Any person knowingly allowing a meeting of an unlawful Society to be held in any house, building, or place belonging to or occupied by him or over which he has control, shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty of 1869, s. 12.) not exceeding five hundred dollars or to six months' im- prisonment with or without hard labour, or to both.
9. Every person shall be considered a Member of an un- lawful Society who has been admitted as a member accord- ing to the Rules and Regulations thereof, or who shall have paid an entrance fee or a subscription, or who shall have attended two or more meetings of the Society as a member, or who shall have signed the roll or list of mem- bers of the Society, or who having once become a member shall not have resigned or withdrawn from or been expelled from the Society.
10. When any of the banners, insignia, or writings of any Society declared by this Ordinance to be unlawful are found in the possession, custody, or control of any per- son, it shall be presumed, till the contrary is shown by such person, that he is a member of such unlawful Society. 11. Ordinances 1 and 12 of 1845 are hereby repealed. Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 11th day of March, 1887.
ARATHOON SETH, Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 13th day of April, 1887.
Penalty
Members of a Bociety. (Straits Settic- ment Ord, 13 of 1869, s. 25.)
Presumptive proof of membership. (Straite Settle- ment Ord. 4 of 1882. s. 5.)
RepeaL
FREDERICK STEWART,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
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