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23. In case the keeper of a registered brothel refuses or neglects to pay to the Registrar General the amount due to the crown and payable by him in respect of such expenses within three days after the service upon him of a notice in that behalf or within such further period as the Registrar General may allow, the registration of such brothel shall from the expiration of the said three days or such further period be suspended until such payment has been made or recovered, and such amount shall be recoverable as a fine under this Ordinance.

24. The inmates of registered brothels other than brothels for the sole use of Chinese shall be liable at all times to medical examination by a Visiting Surgeon in such brothel or at such hospital as he directs.

25. Where an information ou oath is laid before the Registrar General by the Captain Superintendent of Police or an Inspector of Police, charging to the effect that the informant has good cause to believe that a woman therein named is a common prostitute, and is resident within a district or if not being so resident has within fourteen days before the laying of the information bean withinfa district or within the harbour of Victoria) for the purpose of prosti- tution, the Registrar General may if he thinks fit issue a Superintendent or Inspector of Police shall cause to be served on her.

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26. In either of the following cases namely:—

1st. If the woman on whom such a notice is served appears herself or by some person on her behalf at the time and place appointed in the notice or at some other time and place appointed by adjournment,

2nd. If she does not appear and it is shown to the satisfaction of the Registrar General that the notice was served on her a reasonable time before the time appointed for her appearance or that reason- able notice of such adjournment was given to her (as the case may be), the Registrar General on oath being made before him substantiating the matter of the information to his satisfaction may if he thinks fit order that the woman be subject to a periodical medical examination by a Visiting Surgeon for any period not exceeding one year, for the purpose of ascertaining at the time of suck examination whether she is affected with a con- tagious disease, and thereupon she shall be subject to such a periodical medical examination and the order shall be a sufficient warrant for a Visiting Surgeon to conduct such examination accordingly. The order shall specify the time and place at which the woman shall attend for the first examination.

The Superintendent of Police,shall cause a copy of the order to be served on the woman.

27. The Visiting Surgeon, subject to any Regulations made under this Ordinance and to the circumstances of each case, shall at the examination of each woman examined by him and afterwards from time to time as occasion requires prescribe the time and places at which she is required to attend again for examination, and shall from time to time give or cause to be given to each such woman notice of the time and place so prescribed.

28. Any woman may voluntarily by a submission in writing signed by her in the presence of and attested by the Registrar General subject herself to a periodical medical examination under this Ordinance for any period not exceeding one year.

29. Where any woman voluntarily subjects herself by submission in writing to a periodical medical examination, such submission shall for all the purposes of this Ordinance have the same effect as an order of the Registrar General subjecting the woman to examination; and all the provisions of this Ordinance respecting the attendance of the woman for examination, and her absenting herself to avoid examina- tion, and her refusing or wilfully neglecting to submit herself' for examination, and the force of the order subjecting her to examination after imprisonment for such absence, refusal, or neglect, shall apply.

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Jamates of registered brothels at all times Mable to Medical Txamination. [Ibid, nec. 43. Į

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prostitute,

Power to Registrar Go- Teral te ordar periodinat examination. [Ibid, sec. 15.)

Fisicing Surgeon to prescribe

[Ibúl, c. 47.1

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rabantsetón by woman. [hid, sec. 48.)

Such sub-

mission shall

have the same effect as an

order from the Registras General subjecting the WoTurn to gammination. 32 and 33 Vic. Cap, 9, ac, f.

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