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likely to be exposed to any danger of seduction or prostitution or being a child or young person is likely to be exposed to any moral or physical danger he may inquire into the case and--
(a) may make any order (including if he thinks fit an order for removal to and detention in a place of refuge) regarding the control and custody of the person en- dangered which he thinks desirable in her or his interest and, if he thinks fit, may require any person into whose charge he shall place the person endangered to enter into a bond with one or more sureties to treat her or him well; or
(b) may require the person in whose custody the person endangered is or appears to be to do all or any of the following things-
(i) to produce the person endangered;
(i) to furnish photographs of the person endangered and of himself;
(iii) to give security to the satisfaction of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs that the person endangered will not leave the Colony without the consent in writing of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs;
(iv) to give like security that the person endangered will not be trained for or employed in any occupation other than such occupation as may be approved of in writing by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs : Provided that nothing in paragraph (a) of this subsection shall authorize the detention of any female of or above the age of eighteen years.
(a) Any person who fails to produce any female, young person or child when so required as aforesaid by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or fails to perform any obligation imposed by any bond executed under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty: a fine of one thousand dollars and imprison- ment for six months.
(3) During the subsistence of any order or requirement under subsection (1) the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, any Assistant Secretary for Chinese Affairs and any public officer authorized thereto in writing by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, either generally or specially, may at any reasonable time enter and visit the place where the person endangered is and interview the person endangered.
(4) It shall be lawful for the Secretary for Chinese Affairs of his own motion or upon application of any person aggrieved by any order or requirement made under subsection (1)
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or for a magistrate upon the application of any such person or of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs to discharge any order or requirement made if the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or the magistrate as the case may be considers that such order or require- ment either was not or is no longer necessary for the protection of the person endangered.
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(5) The Secretary for Chinese Affairs may, if he considers that such a course is desirable in order to afford temporary protection to A child Dr young person in need of and protection, make any such order or requirement as is author- ized by subsection (1) of this section prior to making any applica- tion under subsection (1) of section 35.
(6) It shall be lawful for the Secretary for Chinesc Affairs notwithstanding that he may have made an order or requirement under this section in the case of a child or young person to apply to a juvenile court for an order under section 35. Upon any such application the juvenile court may exercise the [powers conferred by subsection (4) of this section as well as the powers conferred by subsection (1) of section 35 and for the purpose of considering whether or not any order under subsec- tion (1) of section 35 ought to be made the court may disregard the protection afforded by any order or requirement made under this section and consider the matter as it would have appeared if no such order or requirement had been made.
37. Nothing contained in section 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 or 36 Jurisdic- shall oust any jurisdiction vested in the Supreme Court to make tion of
Supreme any order in relation to the appointment of a guardian of or Court to otherwise in relation to the custody or control of or access to remain any infant.
38. (1) The Secretary for Chinese Affairs shall keep register of female infants the legal guardianship of whom vested in him by virtue of this Ordinance.
unsifected.
a Registra is tion of
for
female infant of whom (2) Any person who acquires the custody or control of guardian- any female infant the legal guardianship of whom becomes vested in
ship is
vested in the Secretary for Chinese Affairs shall within one Secretary month of acquiring such custody or control or if such female Chinese infant is not then in the Colony within one month of the arrival Affairs. within the Colony of such infant give notice thereof to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs in manner prescribed by regula- dons under this Ordinance, and any person who fails to comply with the provisions of this section shall be guilty of an offence; Penalty a fine of five hundred dollars or imprisonment for one