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A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the law relating to the

Registration of Births and Deaths.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Births and Deaths Short title. Registration Amendment Ordinance, 1912.

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Amends

as amended

2. The Births and Deaths Registration Ordinance, 1896, as amended by the Public Service Transfer of Duties Ordinance

No. 7 of 1896 Ordinance, 1909, is hereby further amended in section 4 thereof by the deletion of the words "shall be a registrar and by the substitution therefor of the words and the No. 15 of principal clerk at every Public Dispensary shall be re- 1909. gistrars ".

Objects and Reasons.

It is hoped, by making the clerks at public dispensaries, where babies are taken to be vaccinated, district registrars as well as the police officers in charge of the police stations, which are district register offices, that more Chinese will re- gister the births of their children than is the case at present owing to the natural aversion which many Chinese women bave to attending at police stations for any purpose what-

C. G. ALABASTER, Attorney General.

ever.

A BILL

by Ordinance

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the Gambling Ordin-

ance, 1891.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Gambling Short title. Amendment Ordinance, 1912.

2. The Gambling Ordinance, 1891, is hereby amended Amends Or- by the repeal of section 7 thereof and by the substitution dinance No. therefor of the following section :-

"7.-(1.) Every person who:--

(a.) plays in a common gaming house, or

(b.) buys any lottery ticket;

shall on summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars.

(2.) Every person who sells or has in his possession with a view to sale any lottery ticket shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars.

(3.) Any person found in a common gaming house or found escaping therefrom on the occasion of its being entered under this Ordinance shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, to be or to have been playing therein.

(4.) Any person found in possession of any lottery ticket shall be presumed, until the contrary is proved, to have the said ticket in his possession with a view to sale."

Objects and Reasons.

This Bill amends the Principal Ordinance by increasing the penalty on selling lottery tickets from twenty-five to a thousand dollars and by making possession with a view to sale (with the burden of proof on the defendant) au offence.

C. G. ALABASTER,

Attorney General.

2 of 1891.