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Objects and Reasons.

1. The Mui Tsai Commission recommended at pages 116 and 117 of their Report that the employment of a female under twelve years as a domestic servant should be prohibited by law, that the six months time limit for prosecutions for the offence of bringing an unregistered Mui Tsai into the Colony should be removed and that a Mui Tsai shall cease to be a Mui Tsai on reaching the age of eighteen.

2. The object of this Bill is to implement these recom- mendations, other recommendations are being dealt with in other Bills or by amendments to the regulations and adminis- trative action.

August, 1938.

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J. A. FRASER,

Attorney General.