CO129-442 - Governor Sir May - 1917 [4-6] — Page 48

Amendment

4. Section 19 of the principal Ordinance is amende

of Ordinance by the addition of the following sub-section after the words No. 1 of 1897, “aid such purpose" in paragraph (2)—

s. 19.

Amendment

or (3) receives or harbours any woman or girl with intent that she shall be sold, pledged, let out to hire, purchased, taken in pledge, taken on hire or otherwise disposed of for the purpose of prostitution either within or without the Colony.

5 Section 26 of the principal Ordinance is amended by

of Ordinance the substitution of the figures 21" for the figures 181

No. 4 of 1897, in the second line thereof.

a. 26,

Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 29th day of Murch, 1917.

A. G. M. FLETCHER, Clerk of Councila.

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 30th day of March, 1917,

Enclosure 2.

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

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REC

Hongkong.Ata.A.R.I.1.2.1917,

CLAUD SEVERN,

Colonial Secretary,

:

REPORT ON ORDINANCE No....AR.....

.................of 1917.

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance intituled

An Ordinance to amend further the Protection of Women and Girls

Ordinance, 1897.

and I ain of opinion that the Ordinance is

Governor's Instructions.

one which is not contrary to the

Section 18 of the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897,

was found to be inadequate for the purpose of dealing with what is a serious offence here, the abduction of, and trafficking in, un-

married girls.

Thiswas due to two causes. In the first place

the section applied only where the girl had been taken out of the

possession of her parents or guardians. Many girls get lost or

t