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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, SEPTEMBER 2, 1938.

HONG KONG.

649

No. 13 of 1938.

I assent.

L.S.

G. A. S. NORTHCOTE,

Governor.

2nd September, 1938.

An Ordinance to make better provision for the prevention and

punishment of sedition.

[2nd September, 1938.]

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 Sedition Ordinance, Short title. 1938.

2. In this Ordinance-

"Publication" includes all written or printed matter and everything, whether of a nature similar to written or printed matter or not, containing any visible representation, or by its form, shape, or in any manner capable of suggesting words or ideas, and every copy and reproduction of any publication;

"Seditious publication" means a publication having a seditious intention;

"Seditious words" means words having a seditious intention;

"Import" includes to bring or cause to be brought into the Colony.

3.-(1) A "seditious intention" is an intention-

Definitions

(i) to bring into hatred or contempt or to excite dis- Seditious affection against the person of His Majesty, His heirs or intention. successors, or the Government of the Colony as by law established; or