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Annex B (Page 3)

A new offence under the Societies Ordinance

which would prohibit convicted triad offenders

from entering vice and gambling establishments

and other specified places of recreation

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As with police supervision, there was a considerable diversity of views on this option. The

main concerns included: curtailment of civil rights and liberties; discrimination against triads leading

to problems of their re-integration into society; and

gathering of triads in other places not included

under the offence.

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Some Members also considered that -

(a)

(b)

(c)

the Government should take more

stringent action against places of illegal vice and gambling activities

instead of prohibiting offenders from

entering them;

offenders should be allowed to enter

legal places of entertainment such as

billiard saloons, games centres and

Jockey Club premises; and

the use of pagers, which were legitimate

articles, should not be prohibited.

A scheme of renunciation of triad membership

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Members.

(a)

This option was fully supported by ten

Some considered that -

the offender should not be prosecuted

even if his declaration to renounce

triad membership was not accepted; and