HONG KONG
(1937 REVISION)
No. 8 of 1920.
An Ordinance to amend the law relating to societies.
1920.
[25th June, 1920.]
[Originally No. 8 of 1920.]
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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Societies Ordinance, Short title.
2. In this Ordinance,
(a)
Place" includes vessel;
(b) Society" includes every club, company, guild, lodge, partnership, union or other association of persons whatsoever, and every branch of any such association.
Interpreta- tion.
3. The following societies are hereby declared to be unlawful Societies societies-
declared unlawful.
(a) the Triad Society;
(b) all societies which use a Triad ritual;
(c) all societies which have among their objects unlawful purposes or purposes incompatible with the peace and good order of the Colony.
* See No. 23 of 1917 [Boarding-house], s. 2 (2) (e).