CO129-519-11 Protection of Women and Girls Amendment Ordinance- 1929 1-11-1929 - 1-11-1929 — Page 7

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offence. It also fails to make it an offence to obstruct any such search. Section 6 of this Ordinance substitutes a new section 39 which will remedy the above defects. The new section also gives to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and to the authorised officer, the right to put questions to persons found in any vessel or place searched under the sections and it requires such persons to answer such questions, truthfully, and to obey any order given connected with the search. It also makes it an offence to force or induce a woman or girl who is liable to be dealt with under the Ordinance to conceal herself, or to escape, with a view to evading or obstruct- ing the search. This section is adapted from section 19 of Enact- ment No. 2 of 1914 of the Enactments of the Federated Malay States, as amended by Enactment No. 21 of 1925. It will be noticed that sub-section (1) of section 39 of the principal Ordinance dis- appears, because all the necessary power seems to be given under sub-section (2) of that section, which appears in the new section as sub-section (1), with slight alterations.

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