BOYCOTT PREVENTION,
No. 41 of 1912.
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section 10, any state of boycotting or condition of boycotting which may be in existence at the coming into operation of any order as aforesaid has not entirely ceased and abated, it shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to declare by proclamation published in the Gazette that the provisions of section 9 shall operate retrospectively and shall be deemed to have been in force as from such date as may by the said proclamation be determined and upon the publication of such proclamation the provisions of section 9 of this Ordinance shall be as from such date so determined in such proclamation of full legal force and effect. For the purposes of this section, 'state of boycotting" and "condition of boycotting" shall mean any such state or condition of affairs as may in the opinion of the Governor in Council be regarded as a state of boycotting or condition of boycotting.
No. 42 of 1912.
An Ordinance to provide punishment for certain persons (Originally
found guilty of adultery or of harbouring Chinese No. 12 of 1912. 'married women.
Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
[20th December, 1912.]
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1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Chinese Marriage Short title, Preservation Ordinance, 1912.
2. In this Ordinance, "woman married according to the Interpreta- laws or customs of China" means and includes only the first tion. wife (kit fat) or the second wife (tin fong) of any Chinese man.
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with Chinese
3.-(1) Every Chinese person who commits adultery with Penalty for any Chinese woman married according to the laws or customs adultery of China, shall be guilty of an offence and shall upon sum- married mary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred woman. dollars and in default of payment thereof to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
(2) Every Chinese woman married according to the laws Penalty for or customs of China who voluntarily commits adultery with adultery by any Chinese person shall be guilty of an offence and shall ried woman.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
Chinese mar-