which has been addressed
to Your Lordship by certain members of the Chinese community, complaining of some of the provisions contained in the recently passed
Ordinance to amend and consolidate the law relating to the Protection
of
2. Women and Girls.
I mentioned to Your Lordship in my despatch above quoted that the clause of the Ordinance to which
100 exception section 6 which provides was taken was that any person who defiles an unmarried girl, between the ages of 12 and 16 is to be considered guilty of a misdemeanour and may be punished accordingly.
Dr Kokai objected to this in the Legislative Council on the ground
1 that
3