CO129-604-7 Expulsion of Undesirables Ordinance 1949 19-8-1949 - 16-12-1949 — Page 151

DROIT

SUPPLEMENT NO. 1.

TO THE

HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE

Published by Authority

SUP. TO GAZETTE No. 27]

FRIDAY, MAY 20, 1949.

[VOL. XCI

HONG KONG

No. 21 or 1949.

I assent.

L.S.

A. G. GRANTHAM,

Governor.

19th May, 1949.

An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to exhibitions, publications and advertisements of an indecent, obscene, revolting or offensive nature.

[20th May, 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 Indecent Exhibitions Short title. and Obscene Publications Consolidation Ordinance, 1949.

2. The Indecent Exhibitions Ordinance, 1918, is hereby Amendment amended by-

of sections 5 and 6(1)

(a) substituting in section 5 thereof the words "five of Ordinance thousand dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding No. 3 of six months" for the words "two hundred and fifty dollars or imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months"; and

(b) substituting in sub-section (1) of section 6 thereof the

for the word "magistrate ".

words" justice of the peace

1918.

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