THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 15TH SEPTEMBER, 1905.
GOVERNMENT NOTIFICATION-No. 578.
The following Rules and Regulations are published.
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By Command,
T. SERCOMBE SMITH, Colonial Secretary.
Colonial Secretary's Office, Hongkong, 12th September, 1905.
RULES AND REGULATIONS
Made by the Governor in Council, this 11th day of September, 1905, under Section 47 of the Protection of Women and
Girls Ordinance No. 4 of 1897 for the places
of refuge mentioned in the suid Ordi-
nance and for the women and
girls residing therein.
1. The home providel by the Pó Léung Kuk under the Pó Léung Kuk Incorporation Ordinance, 1893, shall be a place of refuge in which the Registrar General may order a woman or girl to be detained under Sections 34 and 35 of the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897.
2. The institutions known as the Italian Convent and as Miss Eyre's Refuge shall also be held to be places of refuge under the last mentioned Ordinance,
3. No woman or girl sent to a place of refuge shall leave or attempt to leave the same without the written order of the Registrar General or escape or attempt to escape whilst being conducted to or from the said place of refuge.
4. No woman or girl detained in a place of refuge shall behave in a disorderly or noisy, manner.
5. Every woman or girl detained in a place of refuge shall obey all lawful orders and commands of the persons in charge of the said place of refuge and of the matron, teachers and other persons placed in control of the inmates.
6. No woman or girl detained in a place of refuge shall communicate or attempt to communicate with any person except with the approval of the persons in charge of the said place of refuge.
7. The matron with the approval of the Committee of the Pó Léung Kuk, and the managers of places of refuge other than the Pó Leung Kuk, may direct the women and girls in the Pó Léung Kuk or such other places of refuge respectively to wash clothes and cook and do other domestic work, and every inmate of the Pó Leung Kuk or such other place of refuge shall perform such work when so
directed.
8. Any woman or girl in the Pó Leung Kuk who disobeys any of these regulations, for the first offence may be confined in a room by the matron for a period not exceeding one day. Such punish- ment shall be recorded and reported to the Committee of the Pó Léung Kuk. In case of repeated disobedience and recalcitrancy, the matron may report the case to the said Committee, who may order the offender to be confined in a dark cell for any period not exceeding 24 hours. A record shall be kept of such punishment.
9. The Managers of places of refuge other than the Pó Leung Kuk shall have the power to inflict punishments similar to those provided in regulation 8. A record shall be kept of all punishments
inflicted.
10. The rules and regulations published in Government Notification No. 436 of 1895 are hereby repealed.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
HONGKONG.
A. G. M. FLETCHER, Clerk of Councils.