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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH JULY, 1891.
No. 14 OF 1891.
An Ordinance enacted by the Governor of Hong- kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, to amend The Women and Girls' Protection Ordinance, 1890.
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G. DIGBY BARKER,
Officer Administering the Government.
[22nd July, 1891.]
E it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, 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8, sub-section (1) and section 23, sub-section (2) of The Women and Girls' Protection Ordinance, 1890, are hereby repealed and the word "unmarried" in section 5 of the said Ordinance is hereby expunged.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 or person acting in the place of a parent who has voluntarily parted with a girl 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 her parent or as the person acting in the place of her parent.
This section shall be read and construed together with Part II. of The Women and Girls' Protection Ordinance, 1890.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 17th day of July, 1891.
Title.
Repeal of s. 8, subs. (1) an
8. 23 subs. (2) £ No. 11 of 1890. Sections 5 and 6 amended.
Sub-section substituted for sub- section (1) of section 8 of Ordinance No. 11 of 1890.
Sab-section substitutedd for subs. (2)
of section 23 of Ordinance No. 11 of IO.
Right to custody of adopted girls, &c. (Ord. Nr. 19 of 1889, s. 2)
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A. M. THOMSON, Acting Clerk of Councils.
Assented to by His Excellency the Officer Administering the Government, the 22nd day of July, 1891.
W. MEIGH GOODMAN,
Acting Colonial Secretary.
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