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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 19, 1920.

2. Every person who threatens any other person

Certain acts of intimida-

((6) with any injury to the person, reputation, or tion prohi

property of such other person, or

(b) with any injury to the person, reputation, or property of any third person, or to the repu- tation or estate of any deceased person, or (e) with any illegal act,

with intent in any such case-----

(1) to alarm the person so threatened or any other person, or

(2) to cause the person so threatened or any other person to do any act which he is not legally bound to do, or

(3) to cause the person so threatened or any other person to omit to do any act which he is legally entitled to do,

shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance.

bited.

Indian Pena! Code, s. 703.

the threat was not made

3. It shall be no defence to a charge under section 2 No defence to of this Ordinance to prove that the threat was not prove that addressed directly to the person whose person, reputa- tion, or property was to be injured, or to the person (if directly. any) against whom the illegal act was to be committed. or to the person whom it was intended to alarm, or to the person whose conduct was intended to be affected, provided that the threat was made or published in some manner with the intention that it should reach the person whom it was intended to alarm, or (as the case may be) whose conduct was intended to be affected, and that it did reach such person.

4. Every person who commits an offence against this Penalties, Ordinance, and every person who attempts to do any act which would be an offence against this Ordinance, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five Inudred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months, and shall upon conviction on indictment be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding five years,

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 18th day of November, 1920,

S. B. B. McELDERRY,

Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 19th day of November. 1920.

S. B. B. McElderry, Colonial Secretary.

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APPOINTMENTS, &c.

No. 566-Ilis Excellency the Governor has been pleased to appoint, under sub- section 1 of section 2 of the Pilots Ordinance, 1904, Ordinance No. 3 of 1904, Mr. GEORGE DONCAN MACPHERSON ARTHUR to be a Member of the Pilotage Board, with effect from the 15th November, 1920.

15th November, 1920.