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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 6, 1935.

with

47. Every person who with menaces or by force demands Demanding of any person anything capable of being stolen with intent to menaces, steal the same shall be guilty of felony and on conviction with intent thereof liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding to steal. five years.

48. Every person who with intent-

6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 50, s. 30.

Threatening to publish, with intent to extort.

(a) to extort any valuable thing from any person, or (b) to induce any person to confer or procure for any 6 & 7 Geo. 5, person any appointment or office of profit or trust,

(1) publishes or threatens to publish any libel upon any other person (whether living or dead); or

(2) directly or indirectly threatens to print or publish or directly or indirectly proposes to abstain from or offers to prevent the printing or publishing of any matter or thing touching any other person (whether living or dead);

shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two years.

False pretences.

49. Every person who by any false pretence--

(1) with intent to defraud, obtains from

other person any any chattel, money, or valuable security, or causes or procures any money to be paid, or any chattel or valuable security to be delivered to himself or to any other person for the use or benefit or on account of himself or any other person; or

(2) with intent to defraud or injure any other person, fraudulently causes or induces any

other person-

(a) to execute, make, accept, endorse, or destroy the whole or any part of any valuable security; or

(b) to write, impress, or affix his name or the name of any other person, or the seal of any body corporate or society, upon any paper or parchment in order that the same may be afterwards made or converted into, or used or dealt with as, a valuable security;

shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding five years.

c. 50, s. 31.

False pre- tences.

6 & 7 Geo. 5, c. 50, s. 32.

50. Every person who-

Obtaining credit by

(a) in incurring any debt or liability obtains credit under fraud, etc. false pretences or by means of any other fraud; or

(b) with intent to defraud his creditors or any of them, makes or causes to be made any gift, delivery, or transfer of, or any charge on his property; or

(c) with intent to defraud his creditors, conceals or re- moves any part of his property after or within two months before the date of any unsatisfied judgment or order for pay- ment of money obtained against him; or

32 & 33 Vict. c. 62,

s. 13. (cf. No. 10

of 1931, s. 134).

(d) with intent to defraud his creditors or any of them, 16 & 17 Geo. causes or connives at the levying of any execution against his 5, c. 7, s. 6. property;

shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction thereof liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year.

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