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In case of non payment License to become void and amount recover-
THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 25TH MAY, 1867.
XXXVIII. In case the Keeper of a Licensed Brothel shall refuse or neglect to pay to the Registrar General the amount due to the Crown and payable by him in respect of able from Householder. such expenses as aforesaid within Three Days of the service upon him of a notice in that behalf or within such further period as the Registrar General may allow the License granted to such Keeper in respect of such Brothel shall from the expiration of the said Three Days or such further period as aforesaid be suspended until such payment shall have been made or recovered, and the Provisions of Section XVIII as to the Recovery of Fines shall be applicable to the Recovery of the said amount.
Inmates of Licensed Brothels at all times
liable to Medical Examination.
On Information the
General
Registrere to Common Prostitute.
may Notice
Power to Registrar Genel to order
periodical Medical
Examination.
Power to make Regulations as to
Medical Examination.
XXXIX. Every Inmate of a Licensed Brothel shall be liable at all times to Medical Examination by a Visiting Surgeon in such Brothel or at such Hospital as he shall direct.
XL. Where an Information on Oath or Declaration is laid before the Registrar General by the Superintendent or any Inspector of Police charging to the Effect that the Informant has good cause to believe that a woman therein named is a common Prostitute, and is resident within a District of Victoria or if not being so resident has within Fourteen Days before the laying of the Information been within a District of Victoria or in any boat within the Harbor thereof for the purpose of Prostitution the Registrar General may if he thinks fit issue a notice thereof addressed to such woman which notice the Superintendent or such Inspector of Police shall cause to be served on her.
XLI. In either of the following cases namely
1st. If the woman on whom such a notice is served appears herself or by some Person on her behalf at the time and place appointed in the notice or at some other time and place appointed by adjournment;
2nd. If she does not appear and it is shown to the satisfaction of the Registrar General that the notice was served on her a reasonable time before the time appointed for her appearance or that reasonable notice of such adjournment was given to her (as the case may be);
the Registrar General on Oath or Declaration being made before him substantiating the matter of the Information to his satisfaction may if he think fit order that the woman be subject to a periodical Medical Examination by a Visiting Surgeon for any period not exceeding One Year for the purpose of ascertaining at the time of each such examination whether she is affected with a Contagious Disease and thereupon she shall be subject to such a periodical Medical Examination and the order shall be a sufficient warrant for a Visiting Surgeon to conduct such Examination accordingly.
The Orde shall specify the time and place at which the woman shall attend for the first examination.
The Superintendent of Police shall cause a copy of the order to be served on the
woman.
XLII. The Governor in Council may from time to time make Regulations Medical Examinations, respecting the times and places of Medical Examinations under this Ordinance, and generally respecting the arrangements for the conduct of those Examinations; and a copy of all such Regulations from time to time in force shall be sent to the Registrar General, the Inspector of Hospitals, the Visiting Surgeons, and the Superintendent of Police.
Visiting Surgeon to
XLIII. The Visiting Surgeon conducting the first Examination having regard prescribe times, &c. to the Regulations aforesaid and to the circumstances of each case shall at the first examination of each woman examined by him and afterwards from time to time as occasion requires prescribe the times and places at which she is required to attend again for Examination and he shall from time to time give or cause to be given to each such woman notice of the times and places so prescribed.
Voluntary Submission by Woman.
Certificate of Visiting Surgeon.
XLIV. Any woman may voluntarily by a submission in writing signed by her in the presence of and attested by the Registrar General subject herself to a periodical Medical Examination under this Ordinance for any period not exceeding One Year.
Detention in Hospital.
XLV. If on any Medical Examination under this Ordinance the woman examined is found to be affected with a Contagious Disease she shall thereupon be liable to be detained in a Hospital subject and according to the Provisions of this