THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, NOVEMBER 19, 1920.
3. (1) Every person who contravenes any regula- Penalty and tion made under this Ordinance shall upon summary forfeiture. conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.
(2.) It shall be lawful for a magistrate to forfeit any severed plant or portion of a plant with regard to which any contravention of any such regulation shall have been committed.
Passed the Legislative Commeil of Hongkong, this 18th day of November, 1920.
S. B. B. McELDERRY,
Clerk of Conacils,
Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 19th
day of November, 1920.
A. G. M. FLETCHER, Colonial Speretary.
HONGKONG.
No. 12 or 1920.
LS
Lassent to this Ordinance.
R. E. STUBBS, Governor.
19th November, 1920.
An Ordinance to amend the Protection of
Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897.
[19th November, 1920.)
Be 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 Protection of short title. Women and Girls Ordinance, 1920, and shall be read and construed as one with the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897, and with the Protection of Women and Girls Amendment Ordinance, 1917. and Nos. 1 of the said ́Ordinances and this Ordinance may be Fited 1897 and together as the Protection of Wonen and Girls Ordi- 12 of 1917. nances, 1897 to 1920.
Ordinances
2. Section 18 of the Protection of Women and Girls Amendment Ordinance, 1897, as enacted by section 3 of the Protecs of Ordinance
No. 4 of tion of Women and Girls Amendment Ordinance, 1917, 1997, s. 1s, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-
Receiving IS.
or harbour-
ing women
or girls brought into the Colony by force, etc.
as enacted
by Ordi- nance No. 12
---(L) Every person shall be guilty of a of 1917, s. 3.
misdemeanour who without lawful
authority or excuse, proof of which shall lie on the accused,-
(() receives or harbours any woman or girl who has been brought into or is about to be taken away from the Colony by force, intimidation or fraud:
or
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