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Enclosure No.4

PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND JUVENILES (AMENDMENT) BILL 1987

C527

A BILL

To

Amend the Protection of Women and Juveniles Ordinance.

Enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof.

This Ordinance may be cited as the Protection of Women and Short title. Juveniles (Amendment) Ordinance 1987.

A..

section 2.

(Cap. 213.)

2. Section 2 of the principal Ordinance is amended in the definition Amendment of of "infant" by inserting after "21" the following--

"years".

3.

Section 34 of the principal Ordinance is amended-—

(a) in subsection (1), by deleting "brought before the court" and

substituting the following—

"of or above the age of 7 years brought before the court or any other person under the age of 7 years";

(b) by inserting after subsection (1) the following--

"(1AA) In connexion with any motion or application under subsection (1) in respect of a child or juvenile the juvenile court-

(a) may require the child or juvenile to be brought

before the court; and

(b) shall give such directions as it thinks fit for notifying a parent or guardian (whose whereabouts is known) of that child or juvenile of the motion or applica- tion."; and

Amendment of section 34.