FEMALE DOMESTIC SERVICE.
No. 1 of 1923.
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14. Subject to the period allowed for registration and No person subject to the provisions of section 8, no person shall have in his employment any female domestic servant under the age of twelve years unless such servant is a registered mui tsai.
any female domestic servant under twelve, except a registered mui tsai.
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15. Every mui tsai shall be entitled to such wages for her services as shall be prescribed.
Remunera-tion of mui tsai.
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PART IV.
16.-(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), every person who contravenes any of the provisions of section 7 shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
(2) In every prosecution under section 7 the magistrate shall find whether the acts or omissions proved, if any, amounted to gross cruelty, and if in his opinion they amounted to gross cruelty the offender shall not be given the option of paying a fine but shall be sentenced to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year.
(3) Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Ordinance other than those of section 7, and every person who contravenes any regulation made under this Ordinance, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.
17. No prosecution under this Ordinance shall be commenced without the consent of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
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18. In any prosecution under section 7 it shall be lawful for the magistrate to convict of common assault if he finds that an assault was committed but does not find that the girl in question was a mui tsai.
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As amended by No. 22 of 1929 (1.11.29).
§ As amended by No. 23 of 1936 [29.5.36].
As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1939, Supp. Sched.
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