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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 8, 1914.

HONGKONG.

No. 9 OF 1914.

An Ordinance to amend the Protection of

Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897.

I assent to this Ordinance.

F. H. MAY,

LS

Governor.

[8th May, 1914.]

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

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Protection of Short title. Women and Girls Ordinance, 1914, and shall be read and construed as one with the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897, (hereinafter called the Principal Ordi- nance), and this Ordinance and the said Ordinance may be cited together as the Protection of Women and Girls Ördi- nances, 1897-1914.

2. Section 4 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amendment amended by the substitution of the figures "20" for the figures "18" in the second line thereof.

of section 4 of Principal Ordinance.

3. Section 17 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amendment amended as follows:-

of section 17 of Principal Ordinance.

(a.) by the deletion of the words "and has no cf. 2 & 3

"visible means of subsistence" in the second and George V third lines of sub-section (3) thereof and by the c. 20 s. 7 (1). substitution therefor of the words "or is proved "to have exercised control, direction or in- "fluence over the movements of a prostitute "in such a manner as to shew that he is aid- “ing, abetting, or compelling her prostitution "with any other person or generally ";

(b.) by the addition thereto of the following sub-

section (4):-

(4.) Every female who is proved to have, of. 2 & 3 for the purposes of gain, exercised control, George V

c. 20 s. 7 (4). direction or influence over the movements of a prostitute in such a manner as to shew that she is aiding, abetting or compelling her prostitution with any person, or generally, shall be liable to imprisonment for any term not exceeding 3 months."

(c.) by the deletion of the word “ proceeds" in the second line of sub-section (1) thereof and by the substitution therefor of the word "earnings".

4. Section 31 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed and the following section substituted therefor :-

Repeal of

section 31 of Principal Ordinance

and substitu- tion of new section.

"31.-(1.) Whenever any person is convicted either Flogging.

summarily or before the Supreme Court of any offence against the provisions of section 4 or section it shall be lawful for the Magistrate or Court to direct that in addition to the punish- ment hereinbefore prescribed the offender if a mule be flogged.

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