PUBLIC LIGHTING.
No. 13 of 1914.
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shall be the duty of a magistrate, on complaint thereof made, to order and compel the said person to make full satisfaction for the amount of such damage or injury, together with all incidental costs and expenses.
[s. 7, rep. Law Revision Ordinance, 1924.]
Ordinance
8. Nothing in this Ordinance contained shall be deemed to affect any liability imposed by section 186 of the Public Health and Buildings Ordinance, 1903, upon the owners of the land fronting, adjoining, or abutting on any street on land held under lease from the Crown on which buildings front, adjoin or abut.
[s. 9, rep. Law Revision Ordinance, 1924.]
No. 14 of 1914, repealed by No. 8 of 1921.
No. 15 of 1914.
An Ordinance for more effectually preventing the publication of obscene books, pictures, and other articles.
[Originally No. 15 of 1914.]
[5th June, 1914.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Obscene Publications Ordinance, 1914.
2. When it appears to any justice of the peace upon the oath of any person that there is reasonable cause to believe that any obscene or indecent books, papers, writings, prints, pictures, drawings, figures, or other representations, are kept in any house, shop, or other place, or on board any boat or vessel (not being a vessel which is or has the status of a ship of war) within the Colony for the purpose of sale, distribution, exhibition, lending upon hire, or being otherwise published, such justice of the peace may by his warrant directed to any police officer empower such officer by day or by night to enter such house, shop, or other place, or to go on board such boat or vessel, and there to search for and seize...