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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 123. The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 23rd March, 1939:-

(C.S.O. 1075/24. II)

A BILL

INTITULED

[No. 3-19.1.39.—1.]

Short title.

Amendments of Ordinance No. 40 of 1931, s. 5.

An Ordinance to amend the Betting Duty Ordinance, 1931.

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 Betting Duty Amendment Ordinance, 1939.

2. Section 5 of the Betting Duty Ordinance, 1931, is amended-

(a) by the deletion of the words "hawking of chances in the streets or' in the first line of sub-section (2);

(b) by the addition of the following sub-section as sub- section (3):-

(3) No person shall sell or offer for sale any tickets, lists, receipts or other substitutes for tickets recording the numbers of the chances allocated for

any cash-sweep, totalizator or pari-mutuel, except-

(i) at places authorized in writing by the Commissioner of Police for such sales, and then only in accordance with the conditions (if any) contained in such authorization; or

(ii) on the premises or at the offices of the club con- ducting the cash-sweep, totalizator or pari-mutuel betting, to which the tickets, lists, receipts or other substitutes for tickets relate.

Objects and Reasons.

1. The hawking of chances in the streets is forbidden by part of sub-section (2) of section 5 of the Betting Duty Ordinance, 1931.

2. The object of this Bill is to extend that prohibition so as to forbid the sale or offering for sale of any tickets, lists, receipts or other substitutes for tickets recording the numbers of the chances allocated for any cash sweep, totalizator or pari-mutuel, except at places authorized in writing by the Commissioner of Police for such sales, and then only in