ORDER AND CLEANLINESS ORDINANCE
Title
ORDER AND CLEANLINESS ORDINANCE
Description
Order and Cleanliness.
No. 9 of 1867.
An Ordinance to make further Provision for the Maintenance
of Order and Cleanliness within the Colony of Hongkong.
[17th June, 1867.]
WIJEREAS it is expedient to make further provision for the rnaiD-
tenance of order and -cleanliness in the Colony of Borigkng
Be it enacted by the Governor. of Hongkong, with the advice of the
Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. Ordinance No. 8 of 1866 is hereby repealed.
ORDINANCE No.,- 9 ov;i86xw=.
Order and Cleanliness.
Power ~r ven 2. It shall be lawful for the Governor to apply a certain
proportion
to the ~ov
ernor to not exceeding three-fourths, of all fines and penalties recovered
in any
appropriate
a certain Court to payment of such rewards, bounties and gratuities as he
mayy
amount of
flues for the from time to time to any member of the Police Force or to
any constable;.,
payment of'
rewards to for meritorious conduct, zeal displayed, or injury sustained in
the execu-.,
the Police
and toinform- Lion of his duty, or to such private persons or informers,
as the Governor
sic in
may .deem deserving of being rewarded for assisting in the detection of'
nripinaZ1 crime, or the apprehension of offenders.
Power given ~. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time
to time,
to the (lov-
ernortoframe to frame such regulations to be enforced by such flues and
penalties as.
regulatione, to him shall seem fit, for the removal of night soil and the
depositing of
rubbish and for the more effectual carrying out of this Ordinance. Such
regulations shall be duly published in the Gazette, and from and after
such publication to have the Same force and effect as if the same had
been enacted by an Ordinance duly passed to that effect.
9:. Section 12 of Ordinance No. 6 of 1862 is hereby amended by the
addition of
the words, 'with or without hard labor' immediately after the words
'threw`
months' in the fifth line of the said section. [Repealed by Ordinance No.
16 of Z83'S.]
lSooVtnn 3 of
Ordlnsnc9 No.
d of 1802
amandod.
Section zl of ~. Section 21 of Ordinance No. 9 of 1862 is hereby amended
by.
Ordinance i~
rte. a of last substituting, for the words three months at the end of the
said section,
.menaecb the words 'six months with or without hard labor. '
Juvenile
oi£enners to
be privately
whipped in
eercam cases.
6.. Every male person who, subsequently to the commencement of
this Ordinance shall be charged with having ccnn:nitted, or having
attempted to commit, or with having been an cider, abettor, counsellor,
or procurer, in the commission of any offwce which now is or hereafter
may be by law deemed or declared to be simple larceny, or punishable
as simple larceny, and whose age at the period of the commission or
attempted commission of such offence, shall not, in the opinion of the.
Court before whom he shall be brought or appear, exceed the age of
sixteen years, shall on conviction thereof [whether suminarily or
otherwise.-
Repealed by Ordinance No. .16 of 1875] be liable by the sentence of
such Court to be once or twice privately whipped, either instead of, ar
in addition to any other punishment which may now be inflicted for
suchoffence: Provided that such sentence shall specify the number of
strokes
which shall in no case eLCeLd twenty, and provided that the instrument
used shall be a rattan.
ORDINANCE No. 9 of 1867.
Order and Cleanliness.
?, From and after the first day of Auaiist, 1567, it shall not be
lawful for an yr Chinese to act as a money-cha.nzaer in the Colony of
Hongkong-, unless he has previously obtained a licence to do so from
the Registrar General, which licence shall remain in force for one year,
and for which the sum of five dollars shall be annually paid to the
Registrar General, who shall account therefor to the Colonial Treasurer.
$. Any Chinese who shall carry on the business of or act as a
money-changer in the Colony of Hon-kono, without havinn obtained
such a licence, or after the expiration of the same, or who shall violate
any of the conditions contained in the sail licence shall on conviction
thereof before a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a fine not exceeding
twenty-five dollars and not less than ten dollars, and in default. of pay-
meiit to be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for any term not
exceedin; three months.
9. The provisions of Ordinance No. 9 of 1857 so far as they relate to
night Ordinance N°.
a of i ss7 so far
passes shall be deemed and taken to be applicable to Chinese women,
except so far as as ltrelateat°
passes to be
the same may authorize the infliction of any corporal punishment, or
exposure in the ~ m~nble to
stocks. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 14 of 1870.E
10. The keeping of pigs, or of other animals likely to be injurious to
the public
health within the City o£ Victoria. without a special licence from the
Registrar General
is strictly prohibited, and any person who shall be convicted before a
Justice of the
Peace of keeping a pig or other such animal in the said City of
'Victori&, shall be liable
to a fine not exceeding five dollars, and in default of payment shall bm
imprisoned for
any teem not exceeding fourteen days, and the said pig or other animal
shall also be
forfeited. (Repealed by Ordinance No. 7 of 1883.
11. And person who shall expose or proffer for sale in any house or shop
in the
Colony of Aongkong, any liquor, meat, provisions, condiments, or other
article of food
in any tainted, noxious, adulterated, or unwholesome state, shrill on
conviction thereof
before a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a fine not exceeding one
hundred dollars,
and in default of payment to be imprisoned, with or without hard labor,
for any term
not exceeding six mouths; and in case the person convicted shall be a
licensed spirit
dealer, or boarding-house keeper, he shall in addition forfeit his
lioence. (So lunch of
this section as applies to the sale of intoxicating liquors repeated by
Ordinance No. 21 of
1,886 and all the section repealed by Ordinance No. 1 7 of 1887.E
-12. On information duly made before any Justice of the Peace by any
constable.
cieclible person that there is goad reason to believe that any such
tainted, noxious,
ailtittencted-or uxiwholesome liquor, meat, provisions, condiments, of
other article of
food, is; exposed; or for sale, in any house or shop in the said Colony,
it shall be lawful-
far'such Justice in his discretion, to grant a warrant to any constable
to enter and
Chinese
money-chan-
gers to be
licensed.
Penalty on
an unlicensed
person acting
as money
changer.
No pike or other;:
animals injailons:
to the puVAQ . .
health-tn6e.- '.
kept withiuatle=-'-
City of V3atbi5a r-
Adulterated and
unwholesome
food or liquor,
$c. may be
seized; penalty
on persons
selling the owe.
Warrants to
search houses
and shops may
be granted In =
certain cases. .
Power to the
governor to
appoint a
Medical In-
epeotor.
Overcrowded
lodging houses.
Penalty nn'
peretne refusing
to permit their
houses to be
inspected.
Penalty on
Chinese licensed
'!rt dealers
. I.wing the
instalments of
their licence
fees to be in -
arrear.
ORDINANCE No. 9 oF 1867.
Under and Cleanliness.
search any such house or shop by day, and such constable may, if
necessary, break
open the doors of such house or shop, and seine such liquor or provisions
as aforesaid,
and detain the same until the owner thereof shall appear before any
Justice, and if it
shall appear to the said Justice that the said liquor or provisions are
tainted, noxious,
adulterated or unwholesome, he shall adjudge the same to be condemned and
destroyed,
but if otherwise they shall forthwith be restored to the proper owner.
And in ease of
a conviction, the said Justice shall have power to order the offender to
pay in addition
to any fine that may be imposed, the costs which have been incurred in
the execution
'of the said warrant. [S0 much of this section as applies to the sale of
intoxicating liquors
repealed by Ordinance No. 21 of 1886 and all the section repealed by
Ordinance No. 17 of
1887.]
13. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint a duly qualified
medical
practitioner to be the Medical Inspector of the Colony, who shall perform
such duties
connected with the sanitary state of the Colony as the Governor shall
direct, and who
shall receive such annual salary as may be voted. [Repealed by Ordinance
No. 7 of
1883.]
14. Whenever the Colonial Surgeon, the Medical Inspector, or any two
resident
medical practitioners, shall certify to any Justice of the Peace that any
house, occupied
by more than one family, is so overcrowded, or is in such a filthy and
unwholesome
state as to be dangerous or prejudicial to the health of the inhabitants
of the neighbour-J
Hood, it shall be lawful for the said Justice and he is hereby required
to issue a
summons against the householder or his agent within the meaning of the
'Victoria
Registration Ordinance 1866,' by notice affixed to the house, to appear
before the said
Justice who shall thereupon make such order as be may think fit; and in
case any
order so made shall not be complied with by such householder, or agent as
aforesaid,
within seven days from the making thereof, the said Justice may thereupon
impose on
the person so refusing or neglecting to obey the sand order, a fine not
exceeding fifty
dullard and not less than ten dollars, and in default of payment the
person so refusing
or neglecting to obey the said order may be imprisoned for any term not
exceeding
three mouths. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 7 of 1883.]
15. The said Medical Inspector shall have power at any reasonable time to
eater
any house in the Colony and to inspect the condition of the same: any
person refusing
to permit the said Medical Inspector to enter and examine any such house
sba,ll on
conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace be liable to a flue not
exceeding ten
dollars and not less than five dollars, or in default of payment to be
imprisoned for
any term not exceeding fourteen days. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 7 of
1883.]
16. Whenever the holder of any licence for the sale of spirituous liquors
granted
under Ordinance No. 7 of 1$58 shall permit, any instalment of his licence
fee to be in
arrear and unpaid, he shall, on conviction thereof before a Justice of
the Peace, be
liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars and not less than ten
dollars,, and in
default of payment, may be imprisoned for any. term not exceeding one ;
mouth.
[Repealed by Ordinance No. 21 of 1886.E
ORDINANCE. No. g oF~ 1867.
Order and Cleanliness.
17. Any person who shall knowingly harbor or conceal, in the Colony of
Hong-
kong, any person under sentence of deportation, shall on conviction
thereof before a
Justice of the Peace be liable to a fiue not exceeding fifty dollars and
not less than ten
dollars or in default of payment, to be imprisoned, with or without hard
labor, for any
term not exceeding six months. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 8 of 187'6 and
by Ordinance
No. 8 of 1882.]
18. And whereas the evils of gambling in the Colony are found to be on
the. ,Gambling-r*ov-
increase notwithstanding the application of the penal laws in force for
their prevention,- . %o t a e Conci t
for limitation
and it is expedient to devise and adopt further measures for the gradual
control and and control of.
ultimate suppression thereof; Be it therefore enacted that it shall be
lawful for the
Governor in Council from time to time to frame and pass such rules,
regulations and
conditions as may be deemed expedient for the total suppression or in the
meanwhile
for the better limitation and control of galnblim; iu this Colony, with
power from time
to-time to alter and amend such rules and regulations or repeal the same
or any part
thereof. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 9 of 1876.]
Penalty on
persons know-
ingly harboring
Chinese under
sentence of
deportation.
19. Any person violating any of the rules, regulations or conditions to be
from time to time framed and passed by the Governor in Council and
published
in tl:e Gazette in pursuance of this Ordinance, or any of the conditions
imposed
thereunder for the better limitation and control of gambling, shall be
liable upon
summary conviction before a Magistrate of Police to a penalty not
exceeding two
hundred dollars and nut less than twenty dollars, and to imprisonment,
with or without
hard labor, for any period not exceeding sia calendar months and not less
than one
calendar month. Repealed by Ordinance No. 9 of 18T6.]
20. It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace or constable, and
also for any
person authorized thereto by the Governor to enter any house, room,
vessel, boat, and
pla.ce,.either on land or water within the limits of this Colony, and to
arrest therein
any person violating or suspected of having within twenty-four boars
previous to such
arrest violated any such rules, regulations or conditions as aforesaid,
and to seize all
instruments of gaming, tables, dice or other implements used in gambling,
and also all
movies and securities for money found on such persons or in such house,
room, boat,
vessel and place aforesaid, and all such implements of gambling, movies
and securities
£o r money, if proved to the satisfaction of a Magistrate of Police to
have been used or
kept for purposes of gambling shall be forfeited to the Crown; and all
persons con,
victed of violating the rules, regulations and conditions aforesaid shall
in addition to
the forfeitures specified in this section be liable to be fined in any
sum or imprisoned
for any period named in the rules to be framed by the Governor in Council
under
section li. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 9 of 1876.]
21. The word 1° Gambling ' as used in this Ordinance shall apply to and
include Word - Gam-
bling' to include
lotteries, as well those known as Wai.Siiig, Pak-gop-Piu, Tsze.Fa, as all
others. lotteries.
[Beyealed by Ordinance No. 9 of 1876.]
Penalty fur
violating rulex
of Governor in
Council.
Powers of
Justices of the
Peace, constables
and others.
Penalties how
recoverable.
tYRDZNAh3CENa 9 0F 1:867:
Oxcler and_ Cleanliness:
22. All Ordinances or portions of Ordinances inconsistent with the
provisions of this Ordinance are hereby repealed.
23. All penalties imposed under this Ordinance shall be recovered
and may be distributed in the manner provided by Ordinance No. 10 of
1844.
24. This Ordinance shall commence and take effect on such day as
,ll hereafter be fixed by proclamation under the hand of the Governor.
[fn force from 1st July, 2867, under proclamation dated 21st June, 1867.]
hfomz.-For repealed rules and regulations, notices, &c., &c.
of 21st Tune, 1867, see Gazette of the 22nd of the acme month,
aof 15th August, 1867, see Gazette of the 14th September, 1867,
of 12th September, 1868, see Gazette of the 19th September, 1888,
of 21st September, 1868, see Gazette of the 26th of the same month,
of 17th March, 18 71, see Gazette of the 18th of the same month,
of Ond October, 1874, see Gazette of the 17th of the same month.
~bulea and regulations made by the Governor in Council, in pursuance of
the powers
given in Mat behalf by Ordinance No. 9 of 1867, section 18 on the 13th
Tanucvry,
1872. Gaxetted the same day.
1. Whereas it is expedient to repeal the rules and regulations for the
licensing and control of
gaming in certain places, passed by the Governor in Council tinder
authority of section 18 - of
Ordinance No. 9 of 1867, it is hereby notified'that all rules,
regulations, and conditions heretofore
made and published by the Governor in Council under authority of the said
Ordinance, and' more
especially the rules, regulations, and conditions made by the Governor in
Council, on and bearing
date the 15th day of August, 1867, the 12th day of September, 1868, the
14th day, of January;
18'T0; * and the 17th day of March, 1$?l, respectively, are hereby
repealed, and declaae~d to be
null and void, and of no effect whatsoever, from Saturday, inclusive, the
20th day of January.
1872.
CA. VOTE.--77eis was a. Govarrzment. Notice only, as to the conditions of
tender for Banning table, fib:
also rules and regulations of the 13tIt June, 1883, printed at foot o
fNo. 7 of 1$83;],
949
Title.
Preamble.
Ordinance No. 8 of 1866 repealed.
950
Power given to the Governor to appropriate a certain amount of fines for the payment of rewards to the Police and to informers.
[ * Sic in original.]
Power given to the Governor to frame regulations.
Section 12 of Ordinance No. 6 of 1862 amended.
Section 21 of Ordinance No. 9 1862 amended.
Juvenile offenders to be privately whipped in certain cases.
951
Chinese money-changers to be licnesed.
Penalty on an unlicensed person acting as money changer.
Ordinance No. 9 of 1857 so far as it relates to passes to be applicable to women.
No pigs or other animals injurious to the public health to be kept within the City of Victoria.
Adulterated and unwholesome food or liquor, &c. may be seized; penalty on persons selling the same.
Warramts to search homes and shops may be granted in certain cases.
952
Power to the Governor to appoint a Medical Inspector.
Overcrowded lodging houses.
Penalty on persons refusing to permit their houses to be inspected.
Penalty on Chinese licensed spirit dealers allowing the instalments of their licnece fees to be in arrear.
953
Penalty on persons knowingly harbouring Chinese under sentence of deportation.
Gambling--Governor on Council to frame rules for limitation and control of.
Penalty for violating rules of Governor in Council.
Powers of Justices of the Peace, constables and others.
Word 'Gambling' to include lotteries.
954
Ordinances inconsistent herewith repealed.
Commencement of Ordinance.
No. 9 of 1867.
An Ordinance to make further Provision for the Maintenance
of Order and Cleanliness within the Colony of Hongkong.
[17th June, 1867.]
WIJEREAS it is expedient to make further provision for the rnaiD-
tenance of order and -cleanliness in the Colony of Borigkng
Be it enacted by the Governor. of Hongkong, with the advice of the
Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-
1. Ordinance No. 8 of 1866 is hereby repealed.
ORDINANCE No.,- 9 ov;i86xw=.
Order and Cleanliness.
Power ~r ven 2. It shall be lawful for the Governor to apply a certain
proportion
to the ~ov
ernor to not exceeding three-fourths, of all fines and penalties recovered
in any
appropriate
a certain Court to payment of such rewards, bounties and gratuities as he
mayy
amount of
flues for the from time to time to any member of the Police Force or to
any constable;.,
payment of'
rewards to for meritorious conduct, zeal displayed, or injury sustained in
the execu-.,
the Police
and toinform- Lion of his duty, or to such private persons or informers,
as the Governor
sic in
may .deem deserving of being rewarded for assisting in the detection of'
nripinaZ1 crime, or the apprehension of offenders.
Power given ~. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, from time
to time,
to the (lov-
ernortoframe to frame such regulations to be enforced by such flues and
penalties as.
regulatione, to him shall seem fit, for the removal of night soil and the
depositing of
rubbish and for the more effectual carrying out of this Ordinance. Such
regulations shall be duly published in the Gazette, and from and after
such publication to have the Same force and effect as if the same had
been enacted by an Ordinance duly passed to that effect.
9:. Section 12 of Ordinance No. 6 of 1862 is hereby amended by the
addition of
the words, 'with or without hard labor' immediately after the words
'threw`
months' in the fifth line of the said section. [Repealed by Ordinance No.
16 of Z83'S.]
lSooVtnn 3 of
Ordlnsnc9 No.
d of 1802
amandod.
Section zl of ~. Section 21 of Ordinance No. 9 of 1862 is hereby amended
by.
Ordinance i~
rte. a of last substituting, for the words three months at the end of the
said section,
.menaecb the words 'six months with or without hard labor. '
Juvenile
oi£enners to
be privately
whipped in
eercam cases.
6.. Every male person who, subsequently to the commencement of
this Ordinance shall be charged with having ccnn:nitted, or having
attempted to commit, or with having been an cider, abettor, counsellor,
or procurer, in the commission of any offwce which now is or hereafter
may be by law deemed or declared to be simple larceny, or punishable
as simple larceny, and whose age at the period of the commission or
attempted commission of such offence, shall not, in the opinion of the.
Court before whom he shall be brought or appear, exceed the age of
sixteen years, shall on conviction thereof [whether suminarily or
otherwise.-
Repealed by Ordinance No. .16 of 1875] be liable by the sentence of
such Court to be once or twice privately whipped, either instead of, ar
in addition to any other punishment which may now be inflicted for
suchoffence: Provided that such sentence shall specify the number of
strokes
which shall in no case eLCeLd twenty, and provided that the instrument
used shall be a rattan.
ORDINANCE No. 9 of 1867.
Order and Cleanliness.
?, From and after the first day of Auaiist, 1567, it shall not be
lawful for an yr Chinese to act as a money-cha.nzaer in the Colony of
Hongkong-, unless he has previously obtained a licence to do so from
the Registrar General, which licence shall remain in force for one year,
and for which the sum of five dollars shall be annually paid to the
Registrar General, who shall account therefor to the Colonial Treasurer.
$. Any Chinese who shall carry on the business of or act as a
money-changer in the Colony of Hon-kono, without havinn obtained
such a licence, or after the expiration of the same, or who shall violate
any of the conditions contained in the sail licence shall on conviction
thereof before a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a fine not exceeding
twenty-five dollars and not less than ten dollars, and in default. of pay-
meiit to be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for any term not
exceedin; three months.
9. The provisions of Ordinance No. 9 of 1857 so far as they relate to
night Ordinance N°.
a of i ss7 so far
passes shall be deemed and taken to be applicable to Chinese women,
except so far as as ltrelateat°
passes to be
the same may authorize the infliction of any corporal punishment, or
exposure in the ~ m~nble to
stocks. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 14 of 1870.E
10. The keeping of pigs, or of other animals likely to be injurious to
the public
health within the City o£ Victoria. without a special licence from the
Registrar General
is strictly prohibited, and any person who shall be convicted before a
Justice of the
Peace of keeping a pig or other such animal in the said City of
'Victori&, shall be liable
to a fine not exceeding five dollars, and in default of payment shall bm
imprisoned for
any teem not exceeding fourteen days, and the said pig or other animal
shall also be
forfeited. (Repealed by Ordinance No. 7 of 1883.
11. And person who shall expose or proffer for sale in any house or shop
in the
Colony of Aongkong, any liquor, meat, provisions, condiments, or other
article of food
in any tainted, noxious, adulterated, or unwholesome state, shrill on
conviction thereof
before a Justice of the Peace, be liable to a fine not exceeding one
hundred dollars,
and in default of payment to be imprisoned, with or without hard labor,
for any term
not exceeding six mouths; and in case the person convicted shall be a
licensed spirit
dealer, or boarding-house keeper, he shall in addition forfeit his
lioence. (So lunch of
this section as applies to the sale of intoxicating liquors repeated by
Ordinance No. 21 of
1,886 and all the section repealed by Ordinance No. 1 7 of 1887.E
-12. On information duly made before any Justice of the Peace by any
constable.
cieclible person that there is goad reason to believe that any such
tainted, noxious,
ailtittencted-or uxiwholesome liquor, meat, provisions, condiments, of
other article of
food, is; exposed; or for sale, in any house or shop in the said Colony,
it shall be lawful-
far'such Justice in his discretion, to grant a warrant to any constable
to enter and
Chinese
money-chan-
gers to be
licensed.
Penalty on
an unlicensed
person acting
as money
changer.
No pike or other;:
animals injailons:
to the puVAQ . .
health-tn6e.- '.
kept withiuatle=-'-
City of V3atbi5a r-
Adulterated and
unwholesome
food or liquor,
$c. may be
seized; penalty
on persons
selling the owe.
Warrants to
search houses
and shops may
be granted In =
certain cases. .
Power to the
governor to
appoint a
Medical In-
epeotor.
Overcrowded
lodging houses.
Penalty nn'
peretne refusing
to permit their
houses to be
inspected.
Penalty on
Chinese licensed
'!rt dealers
. I.wing the
instalments of
their licence
fees to be in -
arrear.
ORDINANCE No. 9 oF 1867.
Under and Cleanliness.
search any such house or shop by day, and such constable may, if
necessary, break
open the doors of such house or shop, and seine such liquor or provisions
as aforesaid,
and detain the same until the owner thereof shall appear before any
Justice, and if it
shall appear to the said Justice that the said liquor or provisions are
tainted, noxious,
adulterated or unwholesome, he shall adjudge the same to be condemned and
destroyed,
but if otherwise they shall forthwith be restored to the proper owner.
And in ease of
a conviction, the said Justice shall have power to order the offender to
pay in addition
to any fine that may be imposed, the costs which have been incurred in
the execution
'of the said warrant. [S0 much of this section as applies to the sale of
intoxicating liquors
repealed by Ordinance No. 21 of 1886 and all the section repealed by
Ordinance No. 17 of
1887.]
13. It shall be lawful for the Governor to appoint a duly qualified
medical
practitioner to be the Medical Inspector of the Colony, who shall perform
such duties
connected with the sanitary state of the Colony as the Governor shall
direct, and who
shall receive such annual salary as may be voted. [Repealed by Ordinance
No. 7 of
1883.]
14. Whenever the Colonial Surgeon, the Medical Inspector, or any two
resident
medical practitioners, shall certify to any Justice of the Peace that any
house, occupied
by more than one family, is so overcrowded, or is in such a filthy and
unwholesome
state as to be dangerous or prejudicial to the health of the inhabitants
of the neighbour-J
Hood, it shall be lawful for the said Justice and he is hereby required
to issue a
summons against the householder or his agent within the meaning of the
'Victoria
Registration Ordinance 1866,' by notice affixed to the house, to appear
before the said
Justice who shall thereupon make such order as be may think fit; and in
case any
order so made shall not be complied with by such householder, or agent as
aforesaid,
within seven days from the making thereof, the said Justice may thereupon
impose on
the person so refusing or neglecting to obey the sand order, a fine not
exceeding fifty
dullard and not less than ten dollars, and in default of payment the
person so refusing
or neglecting to obey the said order may be imprisoned for any term not
exceeding
three mouths. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 7 of 1883.]
15. The said Medical Inspector shall have power at any reasonable time to
eater
any house in the Colony and to inspect the condition of the same: any
person refusing
to permit the said Medical Inspector to enter and examine any such house
sba,ll on
conviction thereof before a Justice of the Peace be liable to a flue not
exceeding ten
dollars and not less than five dollars, or in default of payment to be
imprisoned for
any term not exceeding fourteen days. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 7 of
1883.]
16. Whenever the holder of any licence for the sale of spirituous liquors
granted
under Ordinance No. 7 of 1$58 shall permit, any instalment of his licence
fee to be in
arrear and unpaid, he shall, on conviction thereof before a Justice of
the Peace, be
liable to a fine not exceeding twenty-five dollars and not less than ten
dollars,, and in
default of payment, may be imprisoned for any. term not exceeding one ;
mouth.
[Repealed by Ordinance No. 21 of 1886.E
ORDINANCE. No. g oF~ 1867.
Order and Cleanliness.
17. Any person who shall knowingly harbor or conceal, in the Colony of
Hong-
kong, any person under sentence of deportation, shall on conviction
thereof before a
Justice of the Peace be liable to a fiue not exceeding fifty dollars and
not less than ten
dollars or in default of payment, to be imprisoned, with or without hard
labor, for any
term not exceeding six months. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 8 of 187'6 and
by Ordinance
No. 8 of 1882.]
18. And whereas the evils of gambling in the Colony are found to be on
the. ,Gambling-r*ov-
increase notwithstanding the application of the penal laws in force for
their prevention,- . %o t a e Conci t
for limitation
and it is expedient to devise and adopt further measures for the gradual
control and and control of.
ultimate suppression thereof; Be it therefore enacted that it shall be
lawful for the
Governor in Council from time to time to frame and pass such rules,
regulations and
conditions as may be deemed expedient for the total suppression or in the
meanwhile
for the better limitation and control of galnblim; iu this Colony, with
power from time
to-time to alter and amend such rules and regulations or repeal the same
or any part
thereof. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 9 of 1876.]
Penalty on
persons know-
ingly harboring
Chinese under
sentence of
deportation.
19. Any person violating any of the rules, regulations or conditions to be
from time to time framed and passed by the Governor in Council and
published
in tl:e Gazette in pursuance of this Ordinance, or any of the conditions
imposed
thereunder for the better limitation and control of gambling, shall be
liable upon
summary conviction before a Magistrate of Police to a penalty not
exceeding two
hundred dollars and nut less than twenty dollars, and to imprisonment,
with or without
hard labor, for any period not exceeding sia calendar months and not less
than one
calendar month. Repealed by Ordinance No. 9 of 18T6.]
20. It shall be lawful for any Justice of the Peace or constable, and
also for any
person authorized thereto by the Governor to enter any house, room,
vessel, boat, and
pla.ce,.either on land or water within the limits of this Colony, and to
arrest therein
any person violating or suspected of having within twenty-four boars
previous to such
arrest violated any such rules, regulations or conditions as aforesaid,
and to seize all
instruments of gaming, tables, dice or other implements used in gambling,
and also all
movies and securities for money found on such persons or in such house,
room, boat,
vessel and place aforesaid, and all such implements of gambling, movies
and securities
£o r money, if proved to the satisfaction of a Magistrate of Police to
have been used or
kept for purposes of gambling shall be forfeited to the Crown; and all
persons con,
victed of violating the rules, regulations and conditions aforesaid shall
in addition to
the forfeitures specified in this section be liable to be fined in any
sum or imprisoned
for any period named in the rules to be framed by the Governor in Council
under
section li. [Repealed by Ordinance No. 9 of 1876.]
21. The word 1° Gambling ' as used in this Ordinance shall apply to and
include Word - Gam-
bling' to include
lotteries, as well those known as Wai.Siiig, Pak-gop-Piu, Tsze.Fa, as all
others. lotteries.
[Beyealed by Ordinance No. 9 of 1876.]
Penalty fur
violating rulex
of Governor in
Council.
Powers of
Justices of the
Peace, constables
and others.
Penalties how
recoverable.
tYRDZNAh3CENa 9 0F 1:867:
Oxcler and_ Cleanliness:
22. All Ordinances or portions of Ordinances inconsistent with the
provisions of this Ordinance are hereby repealed.
23. All penalties imposed under this Ordinance shall be recovered
and may be distributed in the manner provided by Ordinance No. 10 of
1844.
24. This Ordinance shall commence and take effect on such day as
,ll hereafter be fixed by proclamation under the hand of the Governor.
[fn force from 1st July, 2867, under proclamation dated 21st June, 1867.]
hfomz.-For repealed rules and regulations, notices, &c., &c.
of 21st Tune, 1867, see Gazette of the 22nd of the acme month,
aof 15th August, 1867, see Gazette of the 14th September, 1867,
of 12th September, 1868, see Gazette of the 19th September, 1888,
of 21st September, 1868, see Gazette of the 26th of the same month,
of 17th March, 18 71, see Gazette of the 18th of the same month,
of Ond October, 1874, see Gazette of the 17th of the same month.
~bulea and regulations made by the Governor in Council, in pursuance of
the powers
given in Mat behalf by Ordinance No. 9 of 1867, section 18 on the 13th
Tanucvry,
1872. Gaxetted the same day.
1. Whereas it is expedient to repeal the rules and regulations for the
licensing and control of
gaming in certain places, passed by the Governor in Council tinder
authority of section 18 - of
Ordinance No. 9 of 1867, it is hereby notified'that all rules,
regulations, and conditions heretofore
made and published by the Governor in Council under authority of the said
Ordinance, and' more
especially the rules, regulations, and conditions made by the Governor in
Council, on and bearing
date the 15th day of August, 1867, the 12th day of September, 1868, the
14th day, of January;
18'T0; * and the 17th day of March, 1$?l, respectively, are hereby
repealed, and declaae~d to be
null and void, and of no effect whatsoever, from Saturday, inclusive, the
20th day of January.
1872.
CA. VOTE.--77eis was a. Govarrzment. Notice only, as to the conditions of
tender for Banning table, fib:
also rules and regulations of the 13tIt June, 1883, printed at foot o
fNo. 7 of 1$83;],
949
Title.
Preamble.
Ordinance No. 8 of 1866 repealed.
950
Power given to the Governor to appropriate a certain amount of fines for the payment of rewards to the Police and to informers.
[ * Sic in original.]
Power given to the Governor to frame regulations.
Section 12 of Ordinance No. 6 of 1862 amended.
Section 21 of Ordinance No. 9 1862 amended.
Juvenile offenders to be privately whipped in certain cases.
951
Chinese money-changers to be licnesed.
Penalty on an unlicensed person acting as money changer.
Ordinance No. 9 of 1857 so far as it relates to passes to be applicable to women.
No pigs or other animals injurious to the public health to be kept within the City of Victoria.
Adulterated and unwholesome food or liquor, &c. may be seized; penalty on persons selling the same.
Warramts to search homes and shops may be granted in certain cases.
952
Power to the Governor to appoint a Medical Inspector.
Overcrowded lodging houses.
Penalty on persons refusing to permit their houses to be inspected.
Penalty on Chinese licensed spirit dealers allowing the instalments of their licnece fees to be in arrear.
953
Penalty on persons knowingly harbouring Chinese under sentence of deportation.
Gambling--Governor on Council to frame rules for limitation and control of.
Penalty for violating rules of Governor in Council.
Powers of Justices of the Peace, constables and others.
Word 'Gambling' to include lotteries.
954
Ordinances inconsistent herewith repealed.
Commencement of Ordinance.
Abstract
949
Title.
Preamble.
Ordinance No. 8 of 1866 repealed.
950
Power given to the Governor to appropriate a certain amount of fines for the payment of rewards to the Police and to informers.
[ * Sic in original.]
Power given to the Governor to frame regulations.
Section 12 of Ordinance No. 6 of 1862 amended.
Section 21 of Ordinance No. 9 1862 amended.
Juvenile offenders to be privately whipped in certain cases.
951
Chinese money-changers to be licnesed.
Penalty on an unlicensed person acting as money changer.
Ordinance No. 9 of 1857 so far as it relates to passes to be applicable to women.
No pigs or other animals injurious to the public health to be kept within the City of Victoria.
Adulterated and unwholesome food or liquor, &c. may be seized; penalty on persons selling the same.
Warramts to search homes and shops may be granted in certain cases.
952
Power to the Governor to appoint a Medical Inspector.
Overcrowded lodging houses.
Penalty on persons refusing to permit their houses to be inspected.
Penalty on Chinese licensed spirit dealers allowing the instalments of their licnece fees to be in arrear.
953
Penalty on persons knowingly harbouring Chinese under sentence of deportation.
Gambling--Governor on Council to frame rules for limitation and control of.
Penalty for violating rules of Governor in Council.
Powers of Justices of the Peace, constables and others.
Word 'Gambling' to include lotteries.
954
Ordinances inconsistent herewith repealed.
Commencement of Ordinance.
Title.
Preamble.
Ordinance No. 8 of 1866 repealed.
950
Power given to the Governor to appropriate a certain amount of fines for the payment of rewards to the Police and to informers.
[ * Sic in original.]
Power given to the Governor to frame regulations.
Section 12 of Ordinance No. 6 of 1862 amended.
Section 21 of Ordinance No. 9 1862 amended.
Juvenile offenders to be privately whipped in certain cases.
951
Chinese money-changers to be licnesed.
Penalty on an unlicensed person acting as money changer.
Ordinance No. 9 of 1857 so far as it relates to passes to be applicable to women.
No pigs or other animals injurious to the public health to be kept within the City of Victoria.
Adulterated and unwholesome food or liquor, &c. may be seized; penalty on persons selling the same.
Warramts to search homes and shops may be granted in certain cases.
952
Power to the Governor to appoint a Medical Inspector.
Overcrowded lodging houses.
Penalty on persons refusing to permit their houses to be inspected.
Penalty on Chinese licensed spirit dealers allowing the instalments of their licnece fees to be in arrear.
953
Penalty on persons knowingly harbouring Chinese under sentence of deportation.
Gambling--Governor on Council to frame rules for limitation and control of.
Penalty for violating rules of Governor in Council.
Powers of Justices of the Peace, constables and others.
Word 'Gambling' to include lotteries.
954
Ordinances inconsistent herewith repealed.
Commencement of Ordinance.
Identifier
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Edition
1890
Volume
v2
Cap / Ordinance No.
No. 9 of 1867
Number of Pages
6
Files
Collection
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Citation
“ORDER AND CLEANLINESS ORDINANCE,” Historical Laws of Hong Kong Online, accessed May 4, 2025, https://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/items/show/236.
