THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 5, 1936.
HONG KONG.
No. 25 or 1936.
I assent.
L.S.
A. CALDECOTT,
Governor.
5th June, 1936.
An Ordinance to amend the Protection of Women and Girls
Ordinance, 1897.
[5th June, 1936.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Protection of Short title. Women and Girls Amendment Ordinance, 1936.
2. The Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897, is amended by the repeal of sections 12, 12A, 13, 14 and 15 thereof.
3. The Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897, is amended by the insertion of the following new sections after section 11 thereof :-
Repeal of 12A, 13, 14
sections 12,
and 15 of Ordinance No. 4 of 1897.
New
sections 12,
13, 14 and
15 for Ordinance No. 4 of 1897.
Penalty on keeper of premises
occupier or
used as a lodging
or as a
12. Every occupier or keeper of a house or portion of a house who uses it, or who knowingly permits it to be used, as a lodging house for prostitutes or as a brothel shall be liable on summary conviction, for the first offence to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and to imprison- house for ment for any term not exceeding three months, for a second prostitutes offence (whether in respect of the same or other premises) brothel. to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to imprison- ment for any term not exceeding six months, and for a third or any subsequent offence (whether in respect of the same or other premises) to a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding twelve months.
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