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Addition of new sections 20, 21, 22 and 23 to Ordinance No. 1 of 1923.

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(3) Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Ordinance other than those of section 6, and every person who contravenes any regulation made under this Ordinance, shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.

8. The following sections are added to the Female Domestic Service Ordinance, 1923, after section 19:-- Procedure.

Onus.

Age.

Saving

Ordinance No. 4 of 1897.

Ordinance

No. 21 of 1929.

Admissibility

of register,

etc.

20. In any prosecution under section 6 it shall be lawful for the magistrate to convict of common assault if he finds that an assault was committed but does not find that the girl in question was a mui tsai.

21. In every prosecution under this Ordinance it shall until the contrary is proved be presumed that the girl in ques- tion was a mui tsai in the employment of the accused at the time of the alleged offence, and this onus shall not be deemed to be discharged by mere proof that the girl was described in any transaction by some term other than mui tsai.

22. In every prosecution under this Ordinance, whether evidence be called on the question of age or not, any girl who appears to the magistrate to be of or under or over any particular age shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed for the purposes of such prosecution to be of or under or over such age as the case may be.

23. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect any right of guardianship already vested in the Secretary for Chinese Affairs by virtue of the provisions of the Protec- tion of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897, or hereafter vested in him by virtue of the provisions of the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897, as amended by the Protection of Women and Girls Amendment Ordinance, 1929: Provided that in exercising any such right of guar- dianship the Secretary for Chinese Affairs shall comply with the provisions of section 10 of this Ordinance.

24.-(1) In any proceedings whatso- ever, whether under this Ordinance or not, the following shall be admissible in evidence upon production

(a) any register, or any part of any register which appears to be kept under this Ordinance;

(b) any extract from any such regis- ter purporting to be certified as correct by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or Assistant to the Secretary for Chinese Affairs; (c) any photograph or finger prints which appear to have been taken for the purpose of any such register.

(2) If any such photograph appears to have a serial number, and if the said serial number occurs in some part of

any such

register as apparently assigned to some particular mui tsai, it shall, until the con- trary is proved, be assumed that the photo-