THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 24, 1938.
No. 487.
NOTICES.
Hong Kong.
ORDINANCE No. 5 of 1938. (PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS).
Notice is hereby given that His Excellency the Governor, by virtue and in exercise of the powers conferred on him by sub-section (2) of section 32 of the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1938, hereby appoints the 24th day of June, 1938, as the date within three months of which persons having in their custody or control any girl the legal guardianship of whom is, pursuant to section 31 (1) of that Ordinance, vested in the Secretary for Chinese Affairs shall give notice thereof to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs in manner prescribed by regulations.
A copy of the said section 32 and of the regulations and the form in which notice must be given is appended hereto.
N. L. SMITH,
Colonial Secretary.
24th June, 1938.
The text of section 32 of the said Ordinance is as follows:
Registration of girls
of whom guardian- ship is vested in Secretary for Chinese
Affairs.
32.-(1) The Secretary for Chinese Affairs shall keep a register of the girls of whom the legal guardianship is vested in him by virtue of this Ordinance.
(2) Every person who at the date of the passing of this Ordinance has in his custody or control any girl the legal guardianship of whom is vested in the Secretary for Chinese Affairs pursuant to section 31 (1) shall within three months from such date as may be appointed by the Governor by notification in the Gazette give notice thereof in a manner to be prescribed by regulations.
(3) Every person who acquires the custody or control of any such girl shall within one month from the date of acquiring such custody or control give notice thereof in a manner to be prescribed by regulations.
(4) Every person who brings into the Colony any such girl shall within one week from the date of bringing such girl into the Colony give notice thereof in a manner to be prescribed by regulations:
Provided that nothing in this section shall apply in the case of any girl required to be registered under the Female Domestic Service Ordinance, 1923.
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