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A BILL

No. 46 :--[37.32.12.–2,]

STFPLED

An Ordinance to prevent the undue and im- proper interference with or hampering of lawful business and commercial undertakings.

Be it cuacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice aud consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:---

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Boycott Pre- short title. vention Ordinance, 1912.

2. In this Ordinance :--

Definitions.

*Boycotting" means and includes the use of any Boycotting.

words; [the unking, placarding or dissemination

of any writings or the doing of any acts] or the [ ] importing, making, printing, reproducing, having in possession, having under control. placarding, posting, disseminating or in any other manner whatsoever dealing with any printed, written or otherwise produced docu- ments, papers, matter or pictorial representa- tions; or the doing of any acts, intended or calculated to persuade or induce any person or

persous

(.) not to let, hire, use, make use of or occupy any immovable or movable property in any lawful manner;

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(4.) not to deal with, trade with, work for or hire in any lawfni manuer any person or per- sous in the ordinary course of trade, business, occupation, employment or undertaking; or

(e) not to carry out or comply with the requirements of the Law; (

(d.) to refuse to comply with or to inter- fere with the administation of the Law.

"Intimidation" includes any words or aels intended Intimídia.

or calculated to put any person in fear of any tion.

injury or danger to aimself, or to any member

of his family, or to any person in his employ- ment, or in fear of any injury to or loss of pro-

perty, business, employment, means of living

or membership of or status in any "society as defined in this Ordinance.

*Person" includes the public generally or any Persen.

portion of the public or any society is defiuci in this Ordinance.

"Society" includes any company, corporation, club, Society.

guild, or any combination or association of any Kind whatsoever consisting of more than two persous whether such combination or associa- tion be known or desiguated by any disrinetive

mic or not.

3. Any person who shall be a member of or take part Member of in any society which shall use violence, threat or intimida a Society tion to or towards any person or persons with the view of which

commits

causing any person or persons either to do any net which violence, such person or persons has or Lavo a legal right to abstain threat or from doing or to abstain from doing any net which such intimida person or persons has or have a legal right to do shalt be the guilty doomed to have committed an offence against the provisions of an offence, of this Ordinance.

violence

4. Any person who shall use violence, threat or intimi. Person dation to or towards any person or persons with the view committing of causing any person or persons either to do any not threat or which such person or persons lus or have a legal right to intimida- abstain from doing or to abstain from doing any act which tion guilty such person or persons has er have a legal right to do shall of an offence. be deemed to have committed an offence against the provi sions of this Ordinance.

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