THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TH MAY, 1889.
23. Whenever the Registrar General shall have reason to believe that any girl between the ages of six and fifteen years is in the custody, power, or possession of any person who has no legal right to such custody, and that it is prejudicial to the interests and liberty of such girl that she should continue in the custody of such person, it shall be lawful for the Registrar General to make application to a Judge in chambers for a writ of Habeas Corpus.
On the return of the said writ the said Judge shall make such order respecting the custody, education, and bringing up of the said girl, and on such conditions as he shall deem best in the interest of the said girl.
In dealing with such cases no parent who has voluntarily parted with such girl for the purpose of adoption into another family, or who has received money for the parting with the custody of the girl for any other purpose shall be deemed to be entitled as of right to the custody of such girl as its natural guardian.
24. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council out of moneys to be provided by the Legislative Council for that purpose to provide a suitable building or buildings for the purposes of temporarily housing and maintaining women and girls detained under the provisions of this part of the Ordi- nance and as the Asylum for them during such detention.
25. (1.) The Governor in Council shall have power to make rules and regulations for the Asylum including rules and regulations for all women or girls detained under the provisions of this Ordinance and every such woman or girl who contrary to such rules and regulations leaves any place in which she is detained may be arrested and taken back to such place by any Police Officer or by any Officer appointed under this Ordinance and specially authorised by the Registrar General in writing in that behalf.
(2.) Any person who induces or assists any woman or girl so detained as aforesaid to leave contrary to such rules and regulations as aforesaid the place in which she is detained or knowingly harbours any such woman or girl shall upon conviction before a Magistrate be liable to a fine not exceed- ing one hundred dollars or to imprisonment with or without hard labour not exceeding three months.
26. In any suit or action which may hereafter be entered for the recovery of any sum due on any promise or agreement which before the 13th April, 1887, (being the date of Ordi- nauce No. 9 of 1887), has been entered into before the Re- gistrar General with respect to the custody, maintenance or giving in marriage of any female child, it shall not be necessary for the plaintiff in such suit or action to allege or to prove that any consideration was given for the said promise or agreement, and it shall not be competent for the said defendant to allege in defence that the Registrar General had no authority or power to require such promise or agreement from him, or that no consideration was given for the same.
PART III.
REGISTRATION AND INSPECTION OF BROTHELS FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF BROTHEL SLAVERY AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
Registered Brothels.
27. (1.) No brothel shall be kept nor shall any place be kept as a brothel unless the same shall be registered in manner hereinafter prescribed.
(2.) The Governor may from time to time by notification in the Gazette prescribe one or more districts within which all brothels shall be unlawful and no brothel within such district or districts shall be allowed to be registered.
(3.) The Registrar General may at any time refuse to register or may at any time cancel or suspend the registra- tion of any brothel.
28. Every keeper of a registered brothel shall enter into a bond in such a sum and with such securities as the Registrar General shall think fit for the due observance by such keeper of all the requirements of this Ordinance or of any rules and regulations which shall be made theremder. Registrar General may at any time require the said keeper to renew any of the sureties to the said Bond.
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29. No Brothel shall be permitted to be kept in any house in which any trade or business is carried on nor in any house communicating by any passage door or otherwise with any house or room in which any trade or business is carried on.
Registrar General may apply for Habeus Corpus. [Ibid. Sec. 6.]
Place of safety bow provided.
Rales, &c for detention of
woman, &c.
Recovery of sums dae on promise or agreement already entered into. [Ibid. See. 7.)
No brothel
without license.
Bond of keeper.
No Registered Brothel to be kept in a house, &, where any trade is carried on. [Ibid. Sec. 8.]
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