(Ordinance
No. 3 of 1918)
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(ii) being a member of the same household as a child or young person in respect of whom any of the offences specified in the First Schedule has been committed; or
(iii) being a member of the same household as a person who has been convicted of such an offence in respect of a child or young person; or
(iv) being a female member of a household whereof a member has committed an offence under section 2 of the Punishment of Incest Ordinance, 1916, in respect of another female member of that household;
requires care or protection.
(3) For the purposes of this section the fact that a child or young person is found destitute, or is found wandering without any settled place of abode and without visible means of subsistence, or is found begging or receiving alms (whether or not there is any pretence of singing, playing, performing or offering anything for sale) or is found loitering for the purpose of so begging or receiving alms, shall without prejudice to the provisions of paragraph (2) of subsection (2) be evidence that he is exposed to moral danger.
(4) (4) Any person or institution to whose care a child or young person is committed under this section shall, whilst the order is in force, have the like control over the child or young person as the parent and shall be responsible for his maintenance, and the child or young person shall continue in the care of such person or institution, not- withstanding that he is claimed by his parent or any other person, and if any person-
(i) knowingly assists or induces, directly or indirectly, a child or young person to escape from the person or institution to whose care he is so committed; or
(ii) knowingly harbours, conceals, or prevents from returning to such person or institution, a child or young person who has so escaped or knowingly assists in so doing, he shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty: fine of one thousand dollars and imprisonment for six months. (b) Any court having power so to commit a child or young person shall have power to make orders on the parent or other person liable to maintain the child or young person to contribute to his maintenance during such period as aforesaid such sums as the court shall think fit, and may from time to time vary such orders.
(e) Any such order may be made on the complaint or applica tion of the person or institution to whose care the child
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is for the time being committed or on the complaint or the application of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs and either at the time when any order under subsection (1) is made, or subsequently, and the sums contributed by the parent or such other person shall be paid to such person or institution as the court may name, and be applied for the maintenance of the child or young person or towards the cost of conducting the institution as the case may be. (d) Where any parent or other person has been ordered under this section to contribute to the maintenance of a child or young person, he shall give notice of any change of address to the court or to such person as the court may from time to time direct and if he fails to do so without reasonable excuse, he shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty: a fine of one hundred dollars.
(5) So long as the legal guardianship of any child or young person is vested in the Secretary for Chinese Affairs by virtue of an order made under this section he shall, subject to any order to the contrary made by a juvenile court,
have power to make any order or any requirement which he would have power to make had such child or young person been a female the legal guardianship of whom had been vested in the Secretary for Chinese Affairs under section 31.
(6) Any order of a juvenile court made under subsection (1) shall unless amended by another order under that subsection remain in force in the case of males until they reach the age of sixteen and in the case of females until they attain the age of twenty-one or marry with the consent of the lawful guardian of such female or with the consent of a person to whose care such female may have been committed by a juvenile court.
(7) The parent or guardian of a child or young person who by his neglect to exercise due control shall conduce to the child or young person being found in any of the circumstances specified in subsection (a) shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty: a fine of five hundred dollars or imprisonment for three months.
Becretary
38. (1) Whenever the Secretary for Chinese Affairs has Power of reason to believe that any female or any young person or child for (in this section referred to as the person endangered) has been Chinese brought into or is about to be taken out of the Colony by force, a to threats, intimidation, false pretences, false representations or other females fraudulent means or is in the custody or control or under the direction of another person and being a female over fifteen is or is and
pratect
persous