CO129-514-2 Mui Tsai system- suggested regulations and possible abolition 9-1-1929 - 16-5-1929 — Page 114

CO129 Colonial Office Hong Kong Records 理藩院香港檔案 All

HONGKONG

(1924 REVISION)

-1923.

Abp.

B

114

No. 1 of 1923.

An Ordinance to regulate certain forms of female domestic [Originally

service.

No. 1 of 1923.

15th February, 1923.]

Law Rev. Ord., 1924.]

PART I.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Female Domestic Short title. Service Ordinance, 1923.

2. Whereas certain persons have erroneously supposed Declaratory that the payment of money to the parent or guardian or clause. employer of a female child, such payment purporting to be in return for the transfer of certain parental rights, may confer certain rights of property in the child and certain rights of retaining possession, custody and control of the child as against the child's parent or guardian, and as against the child herself, it is hereby declared and enacted that no such payment can confer any such rights whatsoever upon the person making such payment or upon any other person.

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