CORRIGENDA AND ERRATA.
REPORT ON MUI TSAI IN HONG KONG.
Page 64. Appendix No. 13.-Delete contents and substitute the following:-
The Protection of Women and Girls Amendment Ordinance, No. 21 of 1929.
Sec. 5.-Section 32 of the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897, is repealed and the following section is substituted therefor :-
Guardianship of
32. (1) If any parent or person acting in the place of a parent Adopted Girl, etc. has, within or without the Colony, voluntarily parted with a girl under the age of eighteen years for the purpose of adoption into another family, or received money for parting with the custody of any girl under the age of eighteen years for any purpose, the legal guardianship of such girl while within the Colony shall be vested in the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
(2) If in any case it appears to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs that any girl under the age of eighteen years has not been properly treated by the person in whose custody she is, and that the girl is unwilling to remain in such custody, it shall be lawful for the Secretary for Chinese Affairs to call upon such person to produce proof to his satisfaction that such person is the legal guardian, and failing the production of such proof the legal guardianship of such girl while within the Colony shall be vested in the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
(3) Where the legal guardianship of any girl is vested in the Secretary for Chinese Affairs by virtue of the provisions of this section, it shall be lawful for the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, subject to the provisions of section 10 of the Female Domestic Service Ordinance, 1923, to make any order regarding the custody and control of the girl which he may think desirable in her interests, and if he so think fit, to require any person in whose charge he shall place the girl to enter into a bond with one or more sureties to treat the girl well and to produce her before him whenever he shall so require.
Supreme Court Ordinance, No. 3 of 1873.
Section 5.-Such of the laws of England as existed when the Colony obtained a local legislature, that is to say, on the 5th day of April, 1843, shall be in force in the Colony, except so far as the said laws are inapplicable to the local circumstances of the Colony or of its inhabitants, and except so far as they have been modified by laws passed by the said legislature.