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C.S.O. 3 in 1961/10.

No. 8-17.10.2 9.-5.

A BILL

INTITULED

An Ordinance to amend the Female Domestic

Service Ordinance, 1923.

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 Female Short title. Domestic Service Amendment Ordinance, 1929.

2. The Female Domestic Service Ordinance, 1923, Insertion of is amended by the insertion of the following section new s. 44 in immediately after section 4 :—

No unregis- 4A. No person shall hereafter bring any tered mui tsai mui tsai into the Colony unless such mui to be brought into the tsai has previously been in the Colony and Colony. has been registered under this Ordinance.

3. Sections 7 and 8 of the Female Domestic Service Ordinance, 1923, are repealed.

Ordinance No. 1 of 1923.

Repeal of Ordinance No. 1 of 1923, SS. and 8.

Amendment

of Ordinance

4. Section 9 (1) of the Female Domestic Service Ordinance, 1923, is amended by the insertion of the words " subject to the provisions of section 10, immediately after the words "Chinese Affairs" in the 1923, s. 9 (1). fourth line.

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No. 1 of

of

5. Section 11 of the Female Domestic Service Amendment Ordinance, 1923, is amended by the insertion of the of Ordinance

subject to the provisions of section 10," No. immediately after the words "Chinese Affairs" in the 1923, s. 11. fourth line.

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6. Sub-section (2) of section 13 of the Female Repeal of Domestic Service Ordinance, 1923, is repealed.

Ordinance No. 1 of 1923, s. 13 (2).

7. Section 18 of the Female Domestic Service Repeal of Ordinance, 1923, is repealed, and the following section Ordinance is substituted therefor :-

No. 1 of 1923,

substitution

18.-(1) Subject to the provisions of s. 18, and sub-section (2), every person who contra- of new venes any of the provisions of section 6 section. shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.

(2) In every prosecution under section 6 the magistrate shall find whether the acts or omissions proved, if any, amounted to gross cruelty, and if in his opinion they amounted to gross cruelty the offender shall not be given the option of paying a fine but shall be sentenced to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year.