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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 20TH JUNE, 1891.
A BILL
INTITLED
An Ordinance to license the present Church of the Immaculate Conception for the celebration of marriages from the time of its opening. WHEREAS the old Church of the Immaculate Concep-
tion formerly situate at Wellington Street was closed for service on the 31st day of May, 1886, and the present Church of The Immaculate Conception situate at Glenealy, was opened for service, on the 6th day of June, 1886, and whereas no record exists of auy fresh licence for the celebration of marriages having been granted at the time of such opening and a licence was granted and notified in the Government Gazette of the 11th October, 1890. Be it therefore enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :-
1. The present Church of the Immaculate Conception shall be deemed to have been duly licensed for the celebra- tion of marriages from the date of its opening.
Fit le.
Ropeal of s. 8. subs. (1) and
8. 23 subs. (2) of No. 11 of 1990, Sections 5 and 6 amended.
Sub-section substituted for sub-
section (1) of Section 8 of Ordinance No. 11 of 1890.
Sub-section substituted
for subs. (2)
of section 23
of Ordinance
Na. 11 of 1890.
Right to custody of adopted girls, &e. (Ord. No.
19 of 1889, s. 23.)
A BILL
ENTITLED
An Ordinance to amend “The Women and Girls' Protection Ordinance, 1890.”
Batvice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof,
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the
as follows:- ་
1. Section 8, sub-section (1) and section 23, sub-section (2) of The Women and Girls' Protection Ordinance, 1890, are hereby repealed and the word "unmarried" in section 5 of the said Ordinance is hereby expunged.
2. In lieu of said section 8, sub-section (1), the follow- ing sub-section shall be substituted :-
(1.) By force, intimidation or fraud, or by detention or threatened detention of property or wearing apparel or by threatening legal proceedings if such property or wearing apparel be taken away or by threatening legal proceedings for the recovery of any debt or alleged debt or by using any other threat whatever, imprisons or detains or attempts to detain any woman or girl against her will either in a brothel or in any place with the intent that she may practise prostitution or for any immoral purpose or for the purpose of emigration.
3. In lieu of said section 23, sub-section (2), the following sub-section shall be substituted
(1.) The Registrar General or any Officer appointed
under this Ordinance and authorised for that: purpose in writing by the Registrar General shall have power to enter at all times into any registered brothel and the Registrar General and any Officer so authorised as aforesaid shall have power without warrant to enter at all times into and upon and if necessary to break into any house, building, junk, boat or other place reasonably suspected of being an unre- gistered brothel and to arrest any person who shall appear to act or behave himself as the person having the care or management of such house, building, junk, boat or other place so suspected as aforesaid.
4. No parent who has voluntarily parted with a girl between the age of six and sixteen for the purpose of adoption into another family, or who has received money for the parting with the custody of such girl for any other purpose shall be deemed to be entitled as of right to the custody of such girl as its natural guardian.
This section shall be read and construed together with Part II. of The Women and Girls' Protection Ordinance, 1890.