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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 19TH DECEMBER, 1896.
Short title.
Interpreta- tion.
(No. 11 of 90, a. 2.)
Bringing, etc.
any woman or girl with
Intent, etc. (Ord. 11 of 1990, s. 4. subs. I, and s. 11 altered.)
Belling, etc. (Ibid, s. 4, subs. 2.)
Deriving profit, etc. (Ibid, subs. 3.)
Procuration. (48 & 49 Vict. 0.69, s. 2.)
Defilement of girl between 12 and 16 years of age. (Ord. 11 of 1400, s. 6.) (CF, 48 & 49
Vict. c. 69, 8.5, subs. I.)
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to the protection of women and girls.
BE
E 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 Women and Girls Protection Ordinance, 1896.
2. In this Ordinance the following words and expressions shall have or shall include the meanings respectively set against them unless such meanings be repugnant to or in- consistent with the context.
Brothel means a house, room, junk, boat or other place occupied, frequented or used by any two or more women for the purpose of prostitution.
Owner of premises means the person for the time being receiving the rent or a consideration for the use of premises whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any. other person, or who would receive the same if such place were let to a tenant.
Occupier of premises means the person in actual occu- pation of any premises.
3. Any person who--.
PART I.
Offences.
(1.) Takes part in bringing, taking, decoying, or en- ticing any woman or girl into or away from the Colony with intent to sell, pledge, let out to hire, purchase, take in pledge, take on hire, or otherwise dispose of any such woman or girl, for the purpose of prostitution either within or without the Colony; (2.) Takes part in selling, pledging, letting out to hire, purchasing, taking in pledge, taking on hire, or otherwise disposing of any woman or girl, for the purpose of prostitution either within or without the Colony;
(3.) Knowingly derives any profit from the sale, pledge, hire, purchase, taking in pledge, taking on hire, or disposal of any woman or girl who has been sold, pledged, let to hire, purchased, taken in pledge, taken on hire, or otherwise disposed of, for the purpose of prostitution either within or without the Colony,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and, on conviction thereof, shall be liable to the punishment hereinafter provided.
4. Any person who--
(1.) Procures or attempts to procure any woman or girl under twenty-one years of age, not being a common prostitute, or of known immoral character, to have unlawful carnal connexion, either within or without the Colony, with any other person or per-
sons; or
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(2.) Procures or attempts to procure any woman or girl to become, either within or without the Colony, a common prostitute; or (3.) Procures or attempts to procure any woman or girl to leave the Colony, with intent that she may become an inmate of a brothel elsewhere; or (4.) Procures or attempts to procure any woman or girl to leave her usual place of abode in the Colony, (such place not being a brothel), with intent that she may, for the purposes of prostitution, become an inmate of a brothel within or without the Colony, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and, on conviction thereof, shall be liable to the punishment hereinafter provided.
5. Any person who carnally knows or attempts to have carnal knowledge of any unmarried girl being of or above the age of twelve years and under the age of sixteen, shall be guilty of a misdemeanour and on conviction thereof shall be liable to the punishment hereinafter mentioned. Pro- vided that where both parties are Asiatics a girl shall not be deemed unmarried within the meaning of this Ordinance if she is duly married according to the laws and customs of the native country of the girl. Provided also that it shall be a sufficient defence to any charge under this section, if