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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. S. 299.-The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 5th September, 1929:-

C.S.O. 5 in 1961/10.

[No. 15-31.8.29.-3.]

A BILL

Short title.

Amendment,

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

Insertion

of new section 45A in Ordinance No. I of 1865.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Offences against

the Person Ordinance, 1865.

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 the Person Amendment Ordinance, 1929.

2. Section 45 of the Offences against the Person Ordi- nauce, 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

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means ;

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

immediately before the word "claimed" in the sixteenth and seventeenth lines thereof;

(e) 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 nuder the age of fourteen years, and the employer of a child under the age of fourteen years, in- eluding 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 :—

as

(a) that nothing in this sub- section shall be construed 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 ELS 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.

3. The following section is inserted in the Offences against the Person Ordinance, 1865, immediately after section 45 :-

Cortain transactions with regard to minors prohibited.

45A.—(1) Every person who takes any part, or attempts to take any part, in any transaction the object or one of the objects of which is to transfer or confer, wholly or partly, the possession, enstody or control of any minor under the age of eighteen years for any valu- able consideration shall be deemed to be guilty of an offence against this section, unless such person proves beyond reasonable doubt that