CO129-519-11 Protection of Women and Girls Amendment Ordinance- 1929 1-11-1929 - 1-11-1929 — Page 11

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Enclosure 2.

ATTORNEY GENERAL'S CHAMBERS,

Hong Kong...1st November, 192 9.

REPORT ON ORDINANCE No..........21...........of 192 9.

1.

I have examined the accompanying Ordinance. intituled an

Ordinance to amend the Protection of Women and Girls

Ordinance, 1897, and I am of opinion that the Ordinance

is one which is not contrary to the Governor's instructions.

2.

This Ordinance makes various alterations in the

Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897, Ordinance

No. 4 of 1897, some with a view to strengthening the hands

of the authorities in dealing with the elusive and

persistent evil of the traffic in women and girls, and

some in order to get rid of certain inconsistencies or

apparent inconsistencies in the former statutory law.

3. Section 2 of this Ordinance amends section 3 of

the principal Ordinance so as to make paragraph (4) of

the latter section more complete.

Formerly that

paragraph contained correlative provisions, applicable

to the two parties to the transaction, in three cases,

i.e., sale, pledge and hire, but "disposal" had no

correlative.

The amendment now made adds a reference