CO129-475 - Governor Sir Stubbs & Acting Governor Claud Severn - 1922 [5-7] — Page 399

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I. (a).

The expression "Mui-tsai" shall mean and include any female under the age of 20 years (according to Chinese reckoning) whose main or general function it is to be about the employer's person or establishment for the purpose of ministering to the employer's needs or wants or carrying out the employer's orders or the needs or wants or orders of those who are members of such establishment or of those resorting to such establishment including guests, but does not include;- Any female who is adopted by any person as 2 daughter and who is treated in all respects as if she were a member of his family.

(b)

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Any female who is bona fide employed as a

domestic servant on salary basis.

The expression "Employer" shall mean and include the person who purchased any Hui-tsai or to whom for any

consideration or for no consideration the Mui-tsai was transferred

and the person who for the time being has the custody control or care of the Mui-tsai, such person not being the Hui-tsai's father or mother or natural guardian according to Chinese Law and Custom.

(0) The Expression "Parent" shall mean and include the father and mother or any Mui-tsai, or other person who is the natural guardian of the Mui-teai according to Chinese law and Custom.

(d) The expression "Registered Mui-tsai" shall mean any Mui-taai registered in accordance with this Ordinance.

II.

The Secretary for Chinese Affairs shall keep in the form prescribed by the Governor-in-Council a register of mai-tsais. Such form may be modified from time to time by the Governor-in- Council.

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