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Provisions as to processions.
Prohibition of inflammable structures.
No. 3 of 1888.
REGULATION OF CHINESE:
(2) No person shall, within the City of Victoria, play the Chinese reed pipe (except in connexion with a funeral or marriage), or beat any drum or gong within any premises, or knowingly suffer or allow any such instrument to be played or beaten upon his premises between the hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.
23. (1) Except as by this Ordinance provided, no person shall organise, equip, or take part in any procession, with or without music, in any public street or road in the City of Victoria.
(2) This section shall not apply to any funeral or marriage procession, whether with or without music, except in cases where the Governor may so direct.
24. (1) Except as by this Ordinance provided, no person shall, in the City of Victoria, or in any village of the Colony, or nearer to any building than one hundred yards, erect any inflammable structure, awning, or decoration in connexion with any religious or other festival or ceremony, or with any exhibition connected with any such festival or ceremony.
Provisions as to erection of inflammable structures.
(2) This section shall not apply to any scaffolding of wood or bamboo necessary for the removal of a dead body, if such scaffolding is removed within forty-eight hours from the time of its erection.
25. Except as by this Ordinance provided, no person shall discharge, kindle, or let off any firework in the City of Victoria, or within three hundred feet off the praya wall, or attempt to do so.
Provisions as to Chinese theatricals.
26. No person shall advertise, notify, or carry on any Chinese theatrical performance of a public nature unless an abstract of the plot or nature of such performance has first been furnished to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, who may issue a permit for such performance, without which permit no such performance shall be advertised, notified, or carried on.
Permits for processions, etc.
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