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REGULATION OF CLUBS AND SOCIETIES.
Ordinance No. 47 of 1911.
72. During the year 35 applications for registration or exemption from registration under the Ordinance were received and considered. 7 clubs and societies were exempted from registration by notice in the Gazette, while 11 were required to register. In 3 cases permission to register was refused on the ground specified in section of the Ordinance; 10 clubs were found to comprise less than 10 members and did not therefore come under the Ordinance. In the remaining 4 cases no action was taken and the clubs concerned voluntarily dissolved.
Three societies exempted in previous years but lately discovered to be non-existent were declared in the Gazette to have ceased to exist and were struck off the register.
ORDINANCES.
73. The chief Ordinances affecting the Chinese which were passed during 1915 were as follows :-
No. 6 of 1915.--The Seditious Publications (Possession) Ordinance, extending the provisions of Ordinance No. 6 of 1914.
No. 20 of 1915.-The Chinese Extradition Amendment Ordinance 1915 provides that every fugitive criminal for whose surrender a requisition is made shall be deemed a subject of China unless he prove to the contrary.
No. 30 of 1915.-The Asiatic Emigration Ordinance of 1915 repeals Ordinance 1 of 1889 and does little more than reduce it to a simpler and clearer form.
No. 35 of 1915.-The Deportation Ordinance 1915 gives the Government wider powers in dealing with deportees.
GENERAL.
74. Under the terms of the Deportation Ordinance 1914 reports were furnished on 298 suspects arrested by the Police under warrants of detention. The figures in 1914 were 391.
75. Reports were also furnished on numerous other criminals recommended by the Police for banishment on the expiration of their sentences who claimed to be Hongkong born.
76. On December 16th the Memorial Stone at the Harbour of Refuge, Yaumati, was laid by His Excellency the Governor. The stone bears a Chinese inscription suggested by His Excellency Cheung Ming-ki, the Civil Governor of Kwong Tung.
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REGULATION OF CLUBS AND SOCIETIES.
Ordinance No. 47 of 1911.
72. During the year 35 applications for registration or exemption from registration under the Ordinance were received and considered. 7 clubs and societies were exempted from registration by notice in the Gazette, while 11 were required to register. In 3 cases permis- sion to register was refused on the ground specified in section of the Ordinance; 10 clubs were found to comprise less than 10 mem- bers and did not therefore come under the Ordinance. In the remaining 4 cases no action was taken and the clubs concerned voluntarily dissolved.
Three societies exempted in previous years but lately discovered to be non-existent were declared in the Gazette to have ceased to exist and were struck off the register.
ORDINANCES.
73. The chief Ordinances affecting the Chinese which were passed during 1915 were as follows :-
No. 6 of 1915.--The Seditious Publications (Possession) Ordi- nance, extending the provisions of Ordinance No. 6 of 1914.
No. 20 of 1915.-The Chinese Extradition Amendment Ordi- nance 1915 provides that every fugitive criminal for whose sur- render a requisition is made shall be deemed a subject of China unless he prove to the contrary.
No. 30 of 1915.-The Asiatic Emigration Ordinance of 1915 repeals Ordinance 1 of 1889 and does little more than reduce it to a simpler and clearer formi.
No. 35 of 1915.-The Deportation Ordinance 1915 gives the Government wider powers in dealing with deportees.
GENERAL.
74. Under the terms of the Deportation Ordinance 1914 reports were furnished on 298 suspects arrested by the Police under war- rants of detention. The figures in 1914 were 391.
75. Reports were also furnished on numerous other criminals recommended by the Police for banishment on the expiration of their sentences who claimed to be Hongkong born.
76. On December 16th the Memorial Stone at the Harbour of Refuge, Yaumati, was laid by His Excellency the Governor. The stone bears a Chinese inscription suggested by His Excellency Cheung Ming-ki, the Civil Governor of Kwong Tung.
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