Gambling Ordinance Hong Kong

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It was in 1977 under the Gambling Ordinance that gambling was first legalised and regulated in Hong Kong. That piece of legislation determined that gambling was only legal in certain licensed gambling establishments and established a monopoly over lotteries, horse racing betting and other sports betting for the Hong Kong Jockey Club. Hong Kong Jockey Club Mark Six Lottery Mahjong parlours Gambling Policy The Home Affairs Bureau is responsible for formulating gambling policy and monitoring its implementation.

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  Neutral Citations Officially Adopted by the Judiciary with Effect from 1 January 2018
  In accordance with the Practice Direction 5.5, issued on 1 December 2017, official neutral citations will be used by the Judiciary for all Hong Kong judgments delivered after 1 January 2018. Official neutral citations have to be cited for judgments delivered after that date in the following format:
  [Year] Court Abbreviation Number (e.g. [2018] HKDC 12)
  in which
  Year refers to the year of the written delivery of judgment;
  Court abbreviation stands for the court in which the case was heard;
  Number indicates the running number starting from 1.
  HKLII will follow the Judiciary’s neutral citations and cease to assign HKLII’s neutral citations to judgments. The court abbreviations used by HKLII for judgments delivered before 1 January 2018 have been revised to follow the Judiciary’s court abbreviations, which are as follows:
  

  Court	HKLII’s original abbreviation	Judiciary’s abbreviation
  Court of Final Appeal	HKCFA	HKCFA
  Court of Appeal	HKCA	HKCA
  Court of First Instance	HKCFI	HKCFI
  Competition Tribunal	HKCT	HKCT
  District Court	HKDC	HKDC
  Family Court	HKFAMC	HKFC
  Lands Tribunal	HKLDT	HKLdT
  Magistracies	HKMC	HKMagC
  Labour Tribunal	HKLBT	HKLaT
  Small Claims Tribunal	HKSCTC	HKSCT
  Obscene Articles Tribunal	HKOAT	HKOAT
  Coroner’s Court	HKCCDI	HKCrC

  
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