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Report

on An Ordinance entitled An Ordinance to amend

the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance,1897.

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The original draft of this Ordinance was submitted to the Right

Honourable the Secretary of State who in his Despatch of the 7th

January, 1914, signified his approval of it with one reservation. Sub-sections (a) and (b) of Section 3 of the Ordinance have been inserted to meet the point there raised, and they have been taken

as directed from sub-sections (1) and (4) of Section 7 of the Crimi-

nal Law Amendment, Act, 1912,

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As Section 17 of the Principal Ordinance was being amended the

opportunity was taken to make a verbal correction in sub-section (1) of that section. This point is dealt with in sub-section

(c) of Section 3 of the present Ordinance.

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3/- It/also thought advisable to re-cast Section 31 of the Princi- pal Ordinance and to divide it into two sub-sections, one dealing with offences in respect of which flogging may be inflicted on the first offence, and the other dealing with offences in respect of which flogging may be inflicted only on a second offence.

This

has been done in order to avoid a slight apparent inconsistency which would otherwise have existed between section 31 of the Prin- cipal Ordinance on the one hand, and the provisions of section 85(e) of the Kagistrate's Ordinance 1890, Section 3 (7) of the Flogging Ordinance 1903, and the Bills already before the Legisla- tive Council which are subsequently passed as the Kagistrate's Amendment Ordinance, 1914, and the Flogging Amendment Ordinance

1914, on the other hand.

4/- In my opinion this is an Ordinance to which His Excellency the Governor may properly assent in the name of His Kajesty and

on His behalf.

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Attorney General,

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