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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 31, 1918.

HONGKONG.

No. 3 of 1918.

I assent to this Ordinance,

LS

F. H. MAY, Governor.

31st May, 1918.

An Ordinance to prohibit exhibitions, publica- tions, and advertisements of an indecent, obscene, revolting, or offensive nature.

[31st May, 1918.]

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 Indecent Short title. Exhibitions Ordinance, 1918.

2. No person shall, on payment or gratuitously, expose Objection- to public view in or near any public place, any written able exhibi- or printed matter, or any picture, figure, or other thing, tions. or any exhibition, which is of an indecent, obscene, revolting, or offensive nature.

3. No person shall publish in any newspaper, or by objection- such or any other means distribute to the public, any able publi- matter which is of an indecent, obscene, revolting, or cations. offensive nature.

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4. Every advertisement whatsoever relating to syphi- Certain lis, gonorrhoea, nervous debility, or other complaint or advertise- infirmity arising from or relating to sexual intercourse, declared shall for the purposes of this Ordinance be deemed to indecent. be matter of an indecent nature: Provided that this

52 & 53 Vict. section shall not apply to any advertisement in any 18, s. 5. bonâ fide medical newspaper, medical book, or other medical publication.

5. Every person who contravenes any of the pro- Penalties. visions of this Ordinance shall be liable upon summary conviction to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.

Warrant.

6.-(1.) Whenever it appears to a magistrate upon Search the oath of any person that there is reasonable cause to suspect that any written or printed matter, or any picture, figure, or other thing, which is of an indecent, obscene, revolting, or offensive nature, is to be found in any building, vessel (not being a ship of war or a ship having the status of a ship of war), or other place, such magistrate may by warrant directed to any police officer empower him, with such assistants as may be necessary, by day or by night to enter and if necessary to break into or forcibly enter such building, vessel, or other place, and to search for and take possession of any written or printed matter, or any picture, figure, or other thing, which appears to such police officer or to his assistants to be of an indecent, obscene, revolting, or offensive nature.

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