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Clause 22 adds to the Alien Enemies (Winding up) Ordinance a schedule of the forms of declaration to be made by purchasers before the completion of sales of im- movable property sold in the liquidations.
Clause 23 contains two repeals. Sub-clause (1) repeals a definition of the term " "person which is defined afresh in clause 2 of this bill. Sub-clause (2) repeals a section which is rendered unnecessary by clause 20 of this bill.
2nd March, 1917.
A BILL
J. H. KEMP,
Attorney General.
INTITULED
An Ordinance to amend further the Protection
of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897.
Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, 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, 1917, and shall and con- be read and construed as one with the Protection of Women struction. and Girls Ordinance, 1897, bereinafter called the principal Ordinance Ordinance, and with the Protection of Women and Girls No. 4 of 1897. Amendment Ordinance, 1914, and the said Ordinances and Ordinance this Ordinance may be cited together as the Protection of No. 9 of 1914. Women and Girls Ordinances, 1897 to 1917.
2. Sub-section (1) of section 4 of the principal Ordi- Amendment nance, as amended by section 2 of Ordinance No. 9 of of Ordinance 1914. is further amended by the substitution of the figures No. 4 of 1897,
s. 4 (1). for the figures "20" in the second line thereof.
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3. Section 18 of the principal Ordinance is repealed and the following section is pubstituted therefor :
Repeal of
Ordinance No. 4 of 1897,
s. 18, and substitution
of new section.
18.(1) Every person shall be guilty of a misde- Receiving or
meanour who without lawful authority or harbouring excuse, proof of which shall lie on the women or accused,-
girls brought into the
(a) receives or harbours any woman or Colony by girl who has been brought into or is about to force, etc. be taken away from the Colony by force, inti- midation or fraud; or
(b) receives or.harboars any unmarried girl under the age of 21 years who, without the consent of her father or mother or any other person having the lawful care or charge of her, has left or been taken out of the posses- sion of her father or mother or such other person.
(2.) When any person accused under sub-section (1) of this section is proved to have received or harboured any unmarried girl under the age of 21 years who, without the consent of her father or mother or any other person having the law- ful care or charge of her, has left or been taken out of the possession of her father or mother or such other person, it shall be presumed until the contrary is made to appear that the accused received or harboured her knowing that she had left or had been taken out of such posses- sion in the manner aforesaid.
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