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Summary Offences

[1989 Ed.

(3) Any person who is found drunk while in charge of any vehicle (other than a motor vehicle) or of any horse, in any public road or street shall be liable to a fine of $250 or to imprisonment for 2 months.

(4) For the purposes of subsection (3) a person shall be deemed to have been drunk if he was so much under the influence of alcohol as to have lost control of his faculties to such an extent as to render him unable to execute safely the occupation on

(5) Any person which he was engaged at the time in question.

is found drunk while in possession of any loaded firearm or of any firearm and any ammunition therefor shall be liable to a fine of $2,000 and to imprisonment for 6 months. For the purposes of this subsection a person shall be deemed to have been drunk if he was so much under the influence of alcohol as to have lost control of his faculties to such an extent as to render him unable to handle a firearm safely at the time in question. (Amended 22 of 1950 Schedule; 24 of 1950 Schedule)

29. Prohibition of smoking in certain places

(1) No person shall smoke-

(a) in any storehouse, workshop or building attached to the naval establishments in Hong Kong, not appropriated as a residence; or (Amended 33 of 1989 s. 5)

(b) in any naval or military ordnance magazine, military ordnance building or workshop and the enclosures to such premises.

(2) No person shall smoke on board any vessel whatsoever which is in any naval dock or naval dockyard or alongside any naval premises:

Provided that-

(a) this section shall not apply to any person who is a member of Her Majesty's naval forces; and

(b) it shall be lawful for the Senior Naval Officer in Hong Kong to grant such exemptions from the provisions of this subsection as he may think fit.

(3) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this section shall be liable to a fine of $500. (Amended 22 of 1950 Schedule)

30. Persons suspected of having or conveying stolen property

(31 of 1900 ss. 2, 3 & 4 incorporated)

Any person who is brought before a magistrate charged with having in his possession or conveying in any manner anything which may be reasonably suspected of having been stolen or unlawfully obtained, and who does not give an account, to the satisfaction of the magistrate, how he came by the same, shall be liable to a fine of $1,000 or to imprisonment for 3 months.

(Amended 22 of 1950 Schedule) [cf. 1839 c. 71 s. 24 U.K.]