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ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,
Hongkong.....Nuvember 1920,
REPORT ON ORDINANCE No....12.
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1.
I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled
an Ordinance to amend the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897,
12.
and I am of opinion that the Ordinance is one which is not contrary to the
Governor's Instructions.
The evils connected with the traffic in girls are so great that
fuller powers are desirable for dealing with it. The section now re- pealed was insufficient because in cases falling under paragraph (b) of sub-section (1) of that section it was necessary to prove that the girl left or was taken out of the possession of her father or
other or of some other definite person having the lawful care or
charge of her. The difficulty of tracing the relatives, and the
stupidity or connivance of the gitl, sometimes make this proof uncb-
tainable