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the said bond or recognizance, and it shall not be competent for the said defendant to allege in defence that the Registrar General has no authority or power to require such bond from him, or that consideration was given for the same.
10. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make and when made to alter, amend, or revoke all Rules and Regulations necessary for the efficient working of this Ordinance.
11. The said Rules may provide for the presence at all enquiries to be hold by the Registrar General under this Ordinance, of any two or more Chinese Justices of the Peace, they shall also regulate the mode of holding such inquiries and whether the same shall be held in public, or in presence only of the parties interested.
The forms contained in the Schedule to this Ordinance shall be the forms to be used when required under this Ordinance.
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SCHEDULES.
Appendix No. 13.
Section 32 of the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance No. 4 of 1897.
PART II.
Powers of Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
32. 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 re- ceived money for parting with the custody of such girl for any 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, and the legal guardianship of such girl shall be vested in the Secretary for Chinese Affairs who may take such action as he thinks best to secure her welfare, and he may 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.
In case it shall be proved to his satisfaction that any girl has not been treated properly by the person in whose charge she is and that she is unwilling to continue to remain in his charge, it shall be lawful for the Secretary for Chinese Affairs to call upon such person to produce proof to his satisfaction that he is the legal guardian of the girl, and failing the production of such proof the Secretary for Chinese. Affairs shall be deemed to be her legal guardian.
Appendix No. 14.
Female Domestic Service Ordinance 1923 and Regulations as Amended to June 1935.