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DROIT

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SUPPLEMENT NO. 1

TO THE

HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

Published by Authority

SUP. TO GAZETTE No. 19]

FRIDAY, APRIL 1, 1949.

[VOL. XCI

HONG KONG

No. 10 of 1949.

I assent.

L.S.

A. G. GRANTHAM, Governor.

31st March, 1949.

An Ordinance to amend the Gambling Ordinance, 1891.

[1st April, 1949.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof :

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Gambling Amendment Short title. Ordinance, 1949, and shall be read as one with the Gambling Ordinance, 1891, hereinafter referred to as the principal Ordinance. Ordinance

"Lotteries incidental

No. 2 of 1891.

to the

Ordinance.

2. The principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the Addition of addition of the following section, after section 9, as section 9A: section 9A

9A. (1) A lottery promoted as an incident of an principal entertainment to which this section applies, shall be deemed not to be a lottery within the meaning of this Geo. 5, Ordinance if the permission of the Commissioner of c. 58, Police, which permission may be granted or refused in s. 23.) his sole discretion, has been obtained in writing prior

to an enter- tainment

and not for private

gain.

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