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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, OCTOBER 29, 1909.

HONGKONG.

No. 34 OF 1909.

An Ordinance to amend the Protection of Wo- men and Girls Ordinance, 1897, as amen-led by the 'rotection of Women and Girls Amendment Ordinance, 1905.

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F. D. LUGARD,

Governor,

[29th October, 1909.]

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hongkong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Coumeil thereof, as follows:-

struction.

1. This Ordinance may be eited as the Protection of Short title Women and Girls Amendment Ordinance, 1909, and it and con- shall be read and construed as one with the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897, hereinafter referred to as the Principal Ordinance.

S section 18 af

2. Section 18 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amends amended by deleting the comma after the word “Colony the Principal in the fourth line of sub-section (2), by substituting a Ordinance semicolon in place thereof, and by inserting the word "or"

at the end of the said sub-section, and the said section 18

is further amended by inserting, after the said word "or

as a sub-section to be numbered (3), the following words :---

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“(3) receives or barbours any unmarried girl, being under the age of eighteen years, kuowing that such girl has been taken out of the possession and against the will of her father or mother or of any other person having the lawful care or charge of her."

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3. Section 4 of the Protection of Women and Girls Amends Amendment Ordinance, 1905, is hereby amended by the section 4 ol substitution in the first line thereof of the words and figures No. 6 of 1905 *sections 6 or 7" for the word and figure “section 6”.

4. If upon the trial of any indictment for rape, or any Power on offence made felony by section 6 of the Principal Ordi sance,

indictment for rape, fo the Magistrate or the jury as the case may be shall be

convict of satisfied that the defendant is guilty of an offence under certain mis sections 5, 6 9 or 10 of the Principal Ordinance, or of an dementonte. indecent assault, but is not satisfied that the defendant is (48 & 49 guilty of the felony charged in such indictment, or of an Vict. e. 69 ) attempt to commit the same, then and in every such case the Magistrate or the jury as the case may be may equit the defendant of such felony, and find him guilty of 2011 offence as aforesaid, or of an indecent assault, and the such defendant shall be liable to be punished in the same manner as if he had been convicted upon an indictice for such offence as aforesaid, or for the misdemeanour of au indecent assault.

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Passed the Legislative Council of Hongkong, this 28th day of October, 1939.

C. CLEMENTI,

Clerk of Councils.

Assented to by His Excellency the Governor, the 29th day of October, 1909.

F. H. MAY,

Colonial Secretary.

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