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LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL.

No. 8. 301.-The following Bills were read a first time at a meeting of the Council held on the 1st September, 1938-

A BILL

[No. 10-13.5.37.-2.]

INTITULED

Short title.

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 1 of 1923, s. 3. (a) (i) and (ii).

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 1 of

1923, s. 5.

Amendment

of Ordinance No. 1 of 1923, s. 10.

Amendment of Ordinance No. 1 of 1923, s. 15.

An Ordinance to amend the Female Domestic Service Ordin-

ance, 1923.

BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, follows:-

as

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Female Domestic Service Amendment Ordinance, 1938.

2. Section 3 (a) of the Female Domestic Service Ordin- ance, 1923, is amended by the insertion of the words "under the age of eighteen years" after the words "female domestic servant" in the first lines of paragraphs (i) and (ii).

3. Section 5 of the Female Domestic Service Ordinance, 1923, is amended by the substitution of the word "twelve" for the word "ten" in the second line and also in the marginal note.

4. Section 10 of the Female Domestic Service Ordinance, 1923, is amended by the deletion of the words "under the age of eighteen years" in the second and third lines.

5. Section 15 of the Female Domestic Service Ordinance, 1923, is amended by the substitution of the word “twelve” for the word "ten" in the fourth line and also in the marginal

note.

New sub-

section (4) added to Ordinance No. 1 of 1923. Ordinance No. 22 of 1929, Ordin- ance No. 23 of 1936.

Ordinance No. 41 of 1932.

6. Section 18 of the Female Domestic Service Ordinance, 1923, (as enacted by section 7 of the Female Domestic Service Amendment Ordinance, 1929, and amended by section 2 of the Female Domestic Service Amendment Ordinance, 1936) is amended by the addition of the following sub-section at the end thereof:

(4) Notwithstanding anything contained in section 20 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1932, any complaint or in- formation in respect of an offence against section 4À may be made or laid at any time.