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[No. 9:-3.10.29.-5.]

A BILL

Short title.

Amendment

of Ordinance

No. 4 of 1897, s. 3.

Insertion of

new section 34 in

Ordinance

No. 4 of 1897.

Amendment of Ordinance

No. 4 of 1897, s. 18.

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Protection of

Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897.

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 Protection of Women and Girls Amendment Ordinance, 1929.

2. Section 3 of the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897, is amended by the insertion of the words “, or obtaining possession of," immediately after the words "disposing of" in the third line of paragraph (4).

3. The following section is inserted in the Protec- tion of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897, immediately after section 3 :--

Defence negatived.

3A. It shall be no defence to any charge under section 3 that the woman or girl in question consented to the transaction or that she received the consideration or any part of the consideration therefor.

4. Section 18 of the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897, is amended as follows :

(a) by the deletion of the words "receives or harbours in the third and sixth lines of sub-section (1) and by the substitution there- for in each case of the words receives, harbours, detains, or has under his con- trol," ;

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(b) by the deletion of the words "received or harboured in the second line of sub-section (2) and by the substitution therefor of the words "received, harboured, detained, or had under his control,”;

(c) by the deletion of the words "received or harboured her" in the seventh and eighth lines of sub-section (2) and by the substitu- tion therefor of the words "received, har- boured or detained her, or had ber under his control," ;

(d) by the addition of the following sub-section

at the end thereof;-

(4) No person charged under this sec- tion shall be entitled to be acquitted on the ground that such person brought the woman or girl into the Colony, or on the ground that such person took the woman or girl, or caused her to be taken, out of the posses- sion of the person having the lawful care or charge of her.

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