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Repeal and replacement

of section 7.

Amendment

of section 10

3.

Section 7 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and replaced by the following new section-

**Treating.

7. No person sball, before, during or after any election, directly or indirectly, by himself, or by any other person-

(a) corruptly give or provide, or pay wholly or in part the expense of giving or providing any meal, drink, entertainment or provision to or for any person for the purpose of influencing that person or any other person to give or refrain from giving his vote at the election, or an account of such person or any other having voted or refrained from voting at such election; or

(b) corruptly accept or take any such meal, drink,

entertainment or provision:... |

Provided that

(1) the serving of non-alcoholic beverages incidental to an election meeting shall not of itself prima facie be deemed corrupt within the meaning of this section; and

(i) the serving of meals of any kind incidental to an election meeting shall of itself prima facie be deemed corrupt within the meaning of this section.".

Section 10 of the principal Ordinance is amended-

(a) by the deletion of the full stop at the end and the substitution

therefor of a colon; and

(b) by the addition of the following proviso-

Amendment

5.

of section 19.

"Provided that no person shall be rendered incapable of being registered as an elector or voting by reason only of a conviction in respect of a contravention of any of the provisions of subsection (2) of section 19,".

Section 19 of the principal Ordinance is amended-

(a) in subsection (1) by the deletion of the words "which fails to bear the name and address of the printer and publisher thereof" and the substitution therefor of the following-

“which, in the case of printed matter, fails to bear, in the English language, the name and address of the printer together with the date of printing and the number of copies printed":

(b) by the deletion of subsection (2) and the substitution therefor

of the following-

"(2) Any person who publishes, exhibits, distributes or posts up or causes to be published, exhibited. distributed or posted up any address, bill, notice, placard or poster having reference to an election shall, not later than seven days after the publication, exhibition, distribu- tion or posting up thereof, deposit with the returning officer two copies of such address, bill, notice, placard or poster, as the case may be.":

(c) by the deletion of subsection (3) and the substitution therefor

of the following-

"(3) Each address, bill, notice, placard or poster deposited with the returning officer in accordance with subsection (2) shall be retained by him until the expiration of six months after the date upon which the election to which such address, bill, notice, placard or poster relates and may thereafter be destroyed.";

(d) in subsection (4) by the substitution of a full stop for the comma after the word "election" and the deletion of all words thereafter; and

(e) by the addition after subsection (4) of the following new sub-

section-

"(5) For the purpose of this section the expression "printed material" shall include material reproduced by any method of multiplying copies except by means of carbon copies reproduced by manuscript or by typewriter manipulated by hand; and the expression "printer" in- cludes any person producing such printed material.",

Section 29 of the principal Ordinance is amended by the Amendment deletion of the word "secretary" wherever it appears and the sub- of section 29. stitution therefor of the following-

6.

"returning officer”.

Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 8th day of February, 1961.

Defity Clerk of Councils.

(Secretariat GR3/3231/55)