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Power to enter or authorize entry of common gaming house and to seize implements and persons. Schedule.
No. 2.]
THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1891.
hundred dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.
10. It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace or constable or officer of the Police duly authorized by warrant of any Justice of the Peace (which shall be in the form in the Schedule to this Ordinance), with such assistants as may be necessary, to enter and, if necessary, to break into any place which such Justice of the Peace, from sworn information or of his own knowledge, has reasonable grounds to suspect and believe to be a common gaming house, and to arrest such persons as may be found therein, and to seize all cards, dice, balls, counters, tables, lottery tickets, or other implements of gambling or which may be used as such, and also all moneys or securities for money which may be either in actual use for the purpose of gambling or be found on the persons of the keepers of such place, and the said implements of gambling and moneys or securities for money, on conviction of the offender, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be, forfeited to Her Majesty, her heirs and successors.
Evidence of gaming. 8 & 9 Vict. c. 109 s. 8.
Penalty on person obstructing entry of constable, etc. 17 & 18 Vict. c. 38 s. 1.
11. Where any cards, dice, balls, counters, tables, lottery tickets, books, or other implements of gambling are found in any place suspected of being a common gaming house and entered under a warrant issued under this Ordinance, or about the person of any of those who may be found therein, it shall be evidence (until the contrary is made to appear) that such place is used as a common gaming house, and that the persons found in the place where such tables or implements of gambling have been found were playing therein, although no play was actually going on in the presence of the constable or officer entering the same under a warrant issued under this Ordinance, or in the presence of any assistants by whom he may be accompanied as aforesaid; and it shall be lawful for the Magistrate before whom any person may be taken by virtue of the warrant to direct all such implements of gambling to be forfeited or destroyed.
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12. Every person who-
(1.) wilfully prevents any Justice of the Peace or any constable or officer authorized by warrant under this Ordinance to enter any place from entering the same or any part thereof; or
(2.) obstructs or delays any such Justice of the Peace or constable or officer in so entering; or
(3.) by any bolt, bar, chain, or other contrivance, secures any external or internal door of or means of access to any place so authorized to be entered; or
(4.) uses any means or contrivance whatsoever for the purpose of preventing, obstructing, or delaying the entry of any constable or officer authorized by warrant under this Ordinance,
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Power to enter or authorize entry of com-
house and to seize imple- ments and persons. Schedule.
No. 2.]
THE ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG: [A.D. 1891.
hundred dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months..
10. It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace or constable or officer of the Police duly authorized by warrant of any Justice of the mon gaming Peace (which shall be in the form in the Schedule to this Ordinance), with such assistants as may be necessary, to enter and, if necessary, to break into any place which such Justice of the Peace, from sworn information or of his own knowledge, has reasonable grounds to suspect and believe to be a common gaming house, and to arrest such persons as may be found therein, and to seize all cards, dice, balls, counters, tables, lottery tickets, or other implements of gambling or which may be used as such, and also all moneys or securities for money which may be either in actual use for the purpose of gambling or be found on the persons of the keepers of such place, and the said implements of gambling and moneys or securities for money, on conviction of the offender, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be, forfeited to Her Majesty, her heirs and successors.
Evidence of gaming. 8 & 9 Piet.
c. 109 s. 8.
Penalty on
person obstructing entry of
constable, etc. 17 & 18 Vict. c. 38 s. 1.
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11. Where any cards, dice, balls, counters, tables, lottery tickets, books, or other implements of gambling are found in any place suspected of being a common gaming house and entered under a warrant issued under this Ordinance, or about the person of any of those who may be found therein, it shall be evidence (until the contrary is made to appear) that such place is used as a common gaming house, and that the persons found in the place where such tables or implements of gambling have been found were playing therein, although no play was actually going on in the presence of the constable or officer entering the same under a warrant issued under this Ordinance, or in the presence of any assistants by whom he may be accompanied as aforesaid; and it shall be lawful for the Magistrate before whom any person may be taken by virtue of the warrant to direct all such implements of gambling to be forfeited or destroyed.
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12. Every person who-
(1.) wilfully prevents any Justice of the Peace or any constable or officer authorized by warrant under this Ordinance to enter any place from entering the same or any part thereof; or
(2.) obstructs or delays any such Justice of the Peace or constable or
officer in so entering or,
(3.) by any bolt, bar, chain, or other contrivance, secures any external or internal door of or means of access to any place so authorized to be entered; or
3.4.
uses any means or contrivance whatsoever for the purpose of preventing, obstructing, or delaying the entry of any constable or
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