granted may be valid for such period and may be subject to any conditions which the Commissioner of Police may see fit to impose, which conditions may be amended during the period of validity of the permit in respect of which they were imposed. Upon a breach of any condition of a permit, the Commissioner of Police may revoke the permit.

(2) Nothing in this Ordinance shall apply in relation to amusements with prizes provided on such premises as are mentioned in subsection (1) but, in relation to any such amusement to which any of the said provisions would apply but for this subsection, the conditions set out in subsection (3) shall be observed, and if any of those conditions is con- travened every person concerned in the provision or conduct of that amusement shall be guilty of an offence and upon summary conviction shall be liable to a fine of five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for three months unless he proves that the contravention occurred without his consent or connivance and that he exercised all due diligence to prevent it. Where there has been a conviction under this subsection, the Commissioner of Police may revoke the permit granted under subsection (1) under which the amuse- ment in respect of which there was a contravention of the conditions set out in subsection (3) was provided.

(3) The conditions referred to in subsection (2) are- (a) that the amount paid by any person for any one chance to win a prize does not exceed ten cents; (b) that the aggregate amount taken by way of the sale of chances in any one determination of win- ders, if any, of prizes does not exceed five dollars, and that the sale of those chances and the declara- tion of the result take place on the same day and on the premises on which, and during the time when, the amusement is provided:

(c) that no money prize is distributed or offered; (d) that no prize in the form of money's worth is dis- tributed or offered which exceeds the value of one dollar;

(e) that the winning of, or the purchase of a chance to win, a prize does not entitle any person, whether or not subject to a further payment by him, to any further opportunity to win money or money's worth by taking part in any amusement with prizes or in any gaming or lottery:

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( that the opportunity to win prizes at amusements to which this subsection applies is not the only, or the only substantial, inducement to persons to attend the premises.”.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which passed the Legislative Council on the 12th day of September, 1962, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill.

(Secretariat GR46/3231/50)

Deputy Clerk of Councils.

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