C.S.O 3 in 1961/10.
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[No. 8-17.10.29.-5.]
A BILL
INTITULED
Short title.
Insertion of
An Ordinance to amend the Female Domestic
Service Ordinance, 1923.
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 Female Domestic Service Amendment Ordinance, 1929.
2. The Female Domestic Service Ordinance, 1923, new s. 4A in is amended by the insertion of the following section Ordinance
immediately after section 4:
No. 1 of 1923.
Repeal of Ordinance No. 1 of 1923,
ss. 7 and 8.
Amendment
of Ordinance
No unregis-
to be brought
4A. No person shall hereafter bring any tered mui tsai mui tsai into the Colony unless such mui into the tsai has previously been in the Colony and Colony. has been registered under this Ordinance.
3. Sections 7 and 8 of the Female Domestic Service Ordinance, 1923, are repealed.
4. Section 9 (1) of the Female Domestic Service Ordinance, 1923, is amended by the insertion of the words", subject to the provisions of section 10, 1923, s. 9 (1). immediately after the words "Chinese Affairs" in the
No. 1 of
Amendment
fourth line.
""
5. Section 11 of the Female Domestic Service of Ordinance Ordinance, 1923, is amended by the insertion of the
words", subject to the provisions of section 10,' immediately after the words "Chinese Affairs" in the
No. 1 of
1923, s. 11.
Repeal of Ordinance
No. 1 of 1923, s. 13 (2).
Repeal of Ordinance No. 1 of 1923, s. 18, and substitution
of new section.
fourth line.
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6. Sub-section (2) of section 13 of the Female Domestic Service Ordinance, 1923, is repealed.
7. Section 18 of the Female Domestic Service Ordinance, 1923, is repealed, and the following section is substituted therefor :-
18.—(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), every person who contra- venes any of the provisions of section 6 shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
(2). In every prosecution under section 6 the magistrate shall find whether the acts or omissions proved, if any, amounted to gross cruelty, and if in his opinion they amounted to gross cruelty the offender shall not be given the option of paying a fine but shall be sentenced to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year.