A.D. 1888.]
REGULATION OF CHINESE.
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PART VII.
PLACARDS AND MEETINGS.
50.--(1.) No person shall post up or exhibit, or cause to be posted up or exhibited, in or near any street, any public notice or proclamation in the Chinese language without the permission of the Registrar General.
(2.) The Registrar General may refuse such permission whenever he considers that the publication of such notice or proclamation would be prejudicial to peace or good order: Provided that this section shall not apply to Government notices.
51. No Chinese shall hold or be present at any Chinese public meeting whatever, not being a meeting solely for religious worship, without a permit under the hand of the Governor, which may be issued to the occupier of the house in or near which the meeting is to take place or to the person convening the meeting.
PART VIII.
OFFENCES AND PENALTIES.
52. Offences against this Ordinance shall be considered to be:
(1.) refusal, neglect, or omission to do any act commanded by this Ordinance or by any regulation made thereunder;
(2.) refusal to permit or obstruction of any such act;
(3.) the doing of any act prohibited by this Ordinance or by any regulation made thereunder;
(4.) furnishing untrue particulars concerning anything required to be recorded under this Ordinance; and
(5.) using or attempting to use any certificate issued under this Ordinance which has not been duly issued to the person so using or attempting to use it.
53. Every person convicted of an offence against this Ordinance for which no penalty is specially provided shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars for a first, or one hundred dollars for a second, offence: Provided always that, in any case where it may seem to the convicting Magistrate desirable to do so, imprisonment may be awarded without the option of a fine.
54. All penalties incurred and compensations awarded under this Ordinance may be recovered in a summary way before any Magistrate, as may also be any expenses incurred in enforcing this Ordinance.
See Ordinance No. 3 of 1890.
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