CO129-519-8 Offences against the Person Amendment Ordinance- 1929 23-9-1929 - 28-9-1929 — Page 5

L.S.

HONG KONG.

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No. 13 OF 1929.

I assent.

C. CLEMENTI,

Governor.

20th September, 1929.

An Ordinance to amend the Offences against

the Person Ordinance, 1865.

[20th September, 1929.]

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Offences against Short title. the Person Amendment Ordinance, 1929.

2. Section 45 of the Offences against the Person Ordi- Amendment nance, 1865, is amended as follows:

(a) by the deletion of the words "either by force or frand" in the second line thereof, and by the substitution therefor of the words "by any means " ;

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(b) by the insertion of the words "bonâ fide

Immediately before the word “claimed” in the sixteenth and seventeenth lines thereof;

(c) by the renumbering of the said section as sub- section (1), and by the addition of the follow- ing sub-section :—

Ordinance

No. 4 of 1897.

(2) for the purposes of this section, the adoptive parent of a child under the age of fourteen years, and the employer of a child under the age of fourteen years, in- cluding the employer of a mui tsai under the age of fourteen years, shall be deemed to have had the lawful care or charge of such child, provided as follows :—

(a) that nothing in this sub- section shall be construed as affecting any rights vested in or conferred on the Secretary for Chinese Affairs by or under the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897; and

(b) that nothing in this sub- section shall be construed as conferring upon any adoptive parent or employer any right of retaining possession, custody or control of any child as against the child's parent or guardian, or as against the child.

of Ordinance No. 2 of 1865, s. 45.