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Objects and Reasons.

The object of this Bill is to give power to a Magistrate to inflict the penalty of flogging upon a male person convicted of a procuration offence under section 4 of the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897. The Hongkong law does not at present provide for the infliction of this penalty in the case of a first procuration. offence. The ameudinent is taken from section 3 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1912.

This Bill should be read together with the Protection of Women and Girls Bill, 1914, and the Flogging Amend- ment Bill, 1914, simultaneously laid before Council,

This Bill is introduced in order to bring up to the standard which exists in Great Britain the penalties in connection with procuration offences which have been made more severe in consequence of the Paris International Convention of 1910 for the suppression of the White Slave Traffic.

JOHN A. BUCKNILL,

Attorney General.

Short title.

Amendment of section 3 of Principal Ordinance.

A BILL

ENTITLED

An Ordinance to amend the Flogging Ordinance,

1903.

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 Flogging Amend- ment Ordinance, 1914, and shall be read and construed as one with the Flogging Ordinance, 1903, (hereinafter called the Principal Ordinance), and this Ordinance and the said Ordinance may be cited together as the Flogging Ordi- nances, 1903-1914.

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

(a.) by the insertion of a new sub-section (6) after

sub-section (5) as follows:-

"(6) of any erime made punishable under section 4 of Ordinance No. 4 of 1897.”

(6.) by re-numbering sub-sections (6) and (7) as

sub-sections (7) and (8) respectively.

Objects and Reasons.

The object of this Bill is to give power to the Supreme Court to inflict the penalty of flogging upon a male person convicted of a procuration offence under section 4 of the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897. The Hongkong law does not at present provide for the infliction of this penalty in the case of a first procuration offence. The amendment is taken from section 3 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1912.

This Bill should be read together with the Magistrates Amendment Bill, 1914, and the Protection of Women and Girls Bill, 1914, simultaneously laid before Council.

This Bill is introduced in order to bring up to the stand- ard which exists in Great Britain the penalties in connec- tion with procuration offences which have been made severe in consequence of the Paris International Convention of 1910 for the suppression of the White Slave Traffic.

JOHN A. BUCKNILL,

Attorney General,