SUNDAY CARGO WORKING ORDINANCE, 1891

SUNDAY CARGO WORKING ORDINANCE, 1891

THE
ORDINANCES OF HONGKONG.

No. 1 of 1891
An Ordinance to restrict the loading and unloading of cargo on Sunday.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Sunday Cargo
Working Ordinance, 1891.

2. -In this Ordinance,

(a) Cargo does not include mails, personal luggage, live
stock, ice, or artieles of food of a perishable nature required
for immediate consumption.

(b) The Harbour Master includes any person authorised
or deputed by him to perform any duty vested in or imposed upon him
by this Ordinance.

(c) Vessel includes all steamships and also all sailing
ships of European construction or design, except ships of war
belonging to His Majesty or to any foreign Government.

3. No cargo shall he received oi board, loaded, worked,
or discharged from any vessel within the waters of this
Colony on Sunday, without a permit (hereinafter called a
Sunday permit), in the form in the First Schedule, from the
Harbour Master.

As amend by Law Rev. Ord., 1923.





4. An application for a Sunday permit may be made at
the Harbour Master's office on any week day, and, if not
made till the Saturday preceding the Sunday for which the
permit is required, the application must, be made not later
than 5 p.m., unless some other hour is fixed by regulations.

5. Unless such fees are altered by regulations, there shall
be payable For Sunday permits the fees mentioned in the
Second Schedule.

6. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make
regulations as to the fees to be taken for Sunday permits,
the hours within which applications for such permits may
be made, and the conditions on which such permits are
granted, and the hours for working under them.

7. Where any cargo is received on board any vessel or
loaded, worked, or discharged contrary to the provisions of
section 3, the master of such vessel, and, if he leaves the
Colony before conviction, then the agent and the consignee
of such vessel, shall upon summary conviction be severally
liable to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, or, in
default, of payment, to imprisonment for any term not
exceeding one month.

8. The person in charge of every steam-launch, sampan,
junk, or other boat assisting, by the carriage of cargo or
otherwise, in any contravention of section 3 shall upon
summary conviction be liable to a line not exceediIng fifty
dollars, or, in default of payment, to imprisonment for any
term not exceeding fourteen days.

FIRST SHCEDULE

FORM OF PERMIT.

The Sunday Cargo Working Ordinance, 1891.

The sum of $ having been duly paid, permission is hereby
granted to* the master, the agent, and
the consignee, to receive on board, load, work, and cargo on
and from the + vessel named within the waters of
this Colony on Sunday, the day of ., 19
between the hours of and
Dated the day of , 19

(Signed.) A. B,
Harbour Master.

N.B. Cargo working on Sunday without a permit is punishable by fine, or imprison-
ment in default of payment, under the Sunday Cargo Working Ordinance, 1891.






SECOND SCHEDULE. [s. 5.]

SCALE OF FEES FOR SUNDAY PERMITS.

REGISTERED TONNAGE-

400 or under ... ... ... ... ... ... $ 7.5
Over....................400 but not exceeding 700 ... ... 100
700 .............1,000 ..........125
1,000 ....................1,500 ......... 150
1,500 ...................... 2,000..................175
2,000 ........................ 200


No. 2 of 1891.

An Ordinance to consolidate and amend the laws relating
to gambling, common gaming houses, and lotterics.

1. This Ordinance May be cited as the Gambling Ord-
nance, 1891.

2. In this Ordinance,

(a) Common gaming house means and includes any
place opened, kept, or used-
(1) for playing therein at any game of chance or any mixed game
of chance and skill-

(i) in which a bank is kept by one or more of the players
exclusively of the other or others; or

(ii) in which the chances of the game are not alike favour-
able to all the players, including among the players the
banker or other person by whom the game is managed or
against whom the players stake, play, or bet; or

(iii) in which any commisson or percentage is charged in
connexion with the game, the stakes, or the winnings; or

(2) for the purpose of a lottery or lotteries.

(b) Gambling applies to and includes lotteries.

(c) Implements or appliances of gambling include all
articles which are used in or for the purpose of gambling or
a lottery.

As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923. Revenue Officers. may arrest without
warrant in respect of offences against the provisions of this Ordinance.
See No. 2 or 1917.
As amended by law, Rev. Ord., 1923.
Originally No. 6 of 1891. Law Rev. Ord., 1924. Short title. Interpretation. Permit for working cargo on Sunday. First Schedule. Application for permit. Fees. Second Schedule. Regulations. Penalty for infringement of section 3. Penalty for assisting in such infringement. Insert names. Insert steam or sailing

Originally No. 6 of 1891. Law Rev. Ord., 1924. Short title. Interpretation. Permit for working cargo on Sunday. First Schedule. Application for permit. Fees. Second Schedule. Regulations. Penalty for infringement of section 3. Penalty for assisting in such infringement. Insert names. Insert steam or sailing

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