ORDINANCES Nos. 15 AND 16 OF 1860.
Registration of Boats, &c.
Newspapers.
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16. If any person shall resist, impede, or obstruct the Harbour Master or Inspector or other person in the execution of his duty under this Ordinance, he shall be liable on conviction thereof to a penalty not exceeding fifty dollars, or to imprisonment with hard labour not exceeding three calendar months.
17. This Ordinance shall commence and take effect on the first day of January
Obstructing Inspector.
Commencement of Ordinance.
[Repealed by Ordinance No. 8 of 1879.]
No. 16 of 1860.
An Ordinance to amend the Law relating to Newspapers in Hongkong.
[30th November, 1860.]
Be it enacted and ordained by His Excellency the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. That on and after the first day of January next, no person shall print or publish or cause to be printed or published, any newspaper, until he shall have entered into a bond before the Registrar of the Supreme Court, together with two sufficient sureties, to the satisfaction of such Registrar—every person printing or publishing any such newspaper, in the sum of two hundred and fifty pounds, and his sureties in a like sum in the whole—conditioned that such printer or publisher shall pay every such fine or penalty as may at any time be imposed upon or adjudged against him by reason of any conviction for printing or publishing any libel at any time after the entering into such bond—and also all costs of such conviction; and as a further condition, that every such printer or publisher shall pay all such damages and costs as may be recovered or arise in any action for libel published in such newspaper. And every person who shall print or publish, or cause to be printed or published any newspaper, without having entered into such bond, with such sureties as aforesaid, shall, for every such offence forfeit the sum of twenty pounds, together with costs of conviction.
2. Every bond so given as aforesaid may be sued upon in the name of the Attorney General in cases of indictment or information, and of the plaintiff in any action for libel in which damages may have been recovered.
3. In every case in which any surety in any such bond shall have been required to pay, and have paid, the whole or any part of the sum for which he shall have become surety; or in case he shall become bankrupt or insolvent, or shall cease to be a resident in Hongkong, then and in every such case the person for whom such surety shall have become surety shall...
[60 G. 3. c. 4.] [1 W. 4. c. 73.]
Bond to be given by printer or publisher of newspaper.
Attorney General or plaintiff to sue.
New sureties to be provided in certain cases.