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A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend further the Summary

Offences Ordinance, 1845.

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 Summary Short title Offences Amendment Ordinance, 1918, and shall be and cou-

struction. read and construed as one with the Summary Offences Ordinance, 1845, hereinafter called the principal Ordi- Ordinances nance, and with the Summary Offences Amendment Ordinance, 1913, and the said Ordinances and this Ordinance may be cited together as the Summary Offences Ordinances. 1845 to 1918.

Nos. A of 1815 and 1

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2. Section 2 of the principal Ordinance is amended Amendment by the addition at the end thereof of the following of Ordinance definition :--

“Public place" includes all piers, thoroughfares, streets, roads, lanes, alleys, courts, squares, archways, passages, paths, ways and places to which the public have access either contin- ously or periodically, whether the same are the property of the Crown or of private persons.

No. Lof 1815, s. 2.

3. Section 3 of the principal Ordinance is amended Amendment as follows:

of Ordinanek No. Lot

(The figures "50" in the first line thereof are 1815, s. 3,

deleted and the words "two hundred and fifty are substituted therefor.

(b) The words "in any thoroughfare or public place or place adjacent thereto " in the second line thereof are deleted.

(2) Paragraph (1) is amended as follows:

thy by the deletion of the words "of the

roads streets ways or public passages in the third and fourth lines thereof and by the substitution, therefor of the words "public place";

(72) by the deletion of the words "City of Victoria" in the twelfth line thereof and by the substitution therefor of the word “Colony":

(777) by the deletion of the words "to the harbour" in the thirteenth line thereof and by the substitution therefor of the word "thereto ".

(d) Paragraph (2) is amended by the deletion of the words “place of public passage" in the second line thereof and by the substitution. therefor of the words “public place”.

(e) Paragraph (3) is amended as follows:-

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(7) by the insertion of the words "without lawful authority before the word in the first line thereof; (7) by the deletion of the words · scaffold - ing, bricks, lime, barrels, bales or cases of merchandise or any other" in the first second and third lines thereof; (777) by the deletion of the words · road or thoroughfare in the filth line thereof and by the substitution therefor of the word “place".

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(ƒ) Paragraph (4) is amended by the deletion of the word thoroughfare" in the sixth line thereof and by the substitution therefor of the words "public place".