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LAW REVISION (MISCELLANEOUS

AMENDMENTS)

Item

Ordinance

3.

Hong Kong War

Memorial Fund

Ordinance

Ord. No. 70/77

A291

Punishment of person asking alms in threatening manner, etc.

Amendment

or children so to do, commits an offence and is liable on conviction-

(a) for a first or second offence, to a fine of five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for one month; and

(b) for a third or subsequent offence, to a fine of five hundred dollars and to im- prisonment for twelve months.

26B. Any person who asks for alms in a threatening or insolent man- ner, or continues to ask for alms of any person after he has been required to desist, commits an offence and is liable on conviction-

(a) for a first or second offence, to imprisonment for three months; and

(b) for a third or subsequent offence, to imprisonment for eighteen months.".

Section 9 is amended by deleting "one month" (Cap. 1026.) and substituting the following-

"six months".

Passed by the Hong Kong Legislative Council this 7th day of December, 1977.

STEPHEN S. P. TAM, Clerk to the Legislative Council.

This printed impression has been carefully compared by me with the bill, and is found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said bill.

STEPHEN S. P. TAM,

Clerk to the Legislative Council.