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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.]

*

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).