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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, DECEMBER 9, 1932.

HONG KONG.

No. 40 or 1932.

1 assent.

W. PEEL,

L.S.

Governor.

9th December, 1932.

An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to

Summary Offences.

[9th December, 1932.]

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

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Summary Offences Short title. Ordinance, 1932.

2. In this Ordinance:

(a) "Lawful authority" extends to and denotes any per- mission which may be lawfully given by a public officer or department or by a private person.

(b) Where no specific description is given of the owner- ship of any property, the word "property" shall be taken to apply to all such property of the kinds specified, whether owned by the Crown, by a public department or by a private

person

(c) "Public officer," or "Public department," extends to and includes the Governor and every officer or department invested with or performing duties of a public nature, whether- under the immediate control of the Governor or not.

(d) "Public place" includes all piers, thoroughfares, streets, roads, lanes, alleys, courts, squares, archways, water-

Passages, paths, ways and places to which the public have access either continuously or periodically, whether the same are the property of the Crown or of private persons.

Nuisances, trespasses and similar offences.

Inter- pretation.

3. Every person shall be liable to a fine not exceeding Nuisances two hundred and fifty dollars who without lawful authority in public

or excuse :-

(1) throws or lays, or causes or knowingly permits to be thrown or laid, any carrion, dirt, soil, straw or dung, or any other filth, rubbish or noisome or offensive matter whatsoever, on any public place, or on any Government property unless with the consent of a public officer, or on any private property unless with the consent of the owner and of the occupier (if any), of such private property; or into any well, stream, watercourse, ford or reservoir, into any drain

or

or

committed

places, etc.

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