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No. 20 OF 1950.
I assent.
Officer Administering the Gobernment.
27th July, 1950.
An Ordinance to prevent the forgery of passports and the making of untrue statements for the purpose of procuring passports. [28th July, 1950.]
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof :
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Passports (Mis- Short title. cellaneous Offences) Ordinance, 1950.
2.
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In this Ordinance "forgery" has the meaning assigned Inter-
to it in the Forgery Ordinance, 1922.
pretation. Ordinance No. 11 of 1922.
Forgery of
making of
3. The forgery of any passport, or the making by any person of a statement which is to his knowledge untrue for the purposes passport or of procuring a passport, whether for himself or any other person, untrae shall be a misdemeanor punishable with a fine of five thousand statement dollars and imprisonment for two years.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 26th day
of July, 1950.
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to procure
a passport.
15 & 16 Geo. 5 c. 86, p. 36.
Clerk of Councils.