CO129-209 - Governor Sir Bowen - 1883 [5] — Page 91

Exaupts

Chinese hottal

from compulsory

Oxxuération

39. No keeper of a registered brothel shall be liable to such payment unless the amount thereof shall have been certified under the hand of the Visiting Surgeon to be in accordance with a scale of charges to be from time to time fixed by the Inspector of Hospitals with the approval of the Governor and such certificate shall be evidence of the due making and approval of such scale of charges for the purposes of this Ordinance, and of all other facts therein certified.

40. The inmates of all 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 shall direct and the Registrar General may order any such inmate or any woman found in a registered brothel to be taken to the Lock Hospital for examination by a Visiting Surgeon.

41. No keeper of a registered brothel the inmates of which are not subject to medical examination shall admit into such brothel any foreign male unless an authorized official or a person permitted by an authorized official under a penalty of one hundred dollars, and no keeper of a registered brothel whose inmates are medically inspected shall admit, subject to a like penalty, into such brothel a Chinese male unless by permission of the Registrar General. And if any person is proved to the satisfaction of a Magistrate to have infected with a contagious disease any inmate of a registered brothel, he shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars or to imprisonment with hard labour for any term not exceeding six months.

42. Where an information on oath is laid before the Registrar General by the Superintendent 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 the Colony or the waters thereof or if not being so resident has within fourteen days before the laying of the information been within the Colony or the waters thereof for the purpose of prostitution, the Registrar General may, if he thinks fit, issue a notice thereof addressed to such woman, which notice the Superintendent or an Inspector of Police shall cause to be served on her.

43. 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, or 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 reasonable notice of such adjournment was given to her (as the case may be), the Registrar General, on oath or declaration 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 each such examination whether she is affected with a contagious disease, and thereupon she shall be subject to such a periodical medical examination, and such order in writing 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 or an Inspector of Police shall cause a copy of the order to be served on the woman. The Registrar General may, without reference to the foregoing provisions, order that any woman convicted under sections 19, 20, 28, 29, 30, and 31 shall be subject to a periodical medical examination, and his written order shall be sufficient authority for a Visiting Surgeon to conduct such examination accordingly.

Amon to be certified by Visiting Surgeon

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certain registered brothels at all times liable to medical examination.

Foreign male

not admitted

brothels and native males not admitted to medically examined brothels.

Penalty in cases of person

infecting any inmate of a registered brothel.

On Information the Registrar

General may issue Notice to common

prostitute

Power to

Registrar General to

order periodical medical

examination.

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