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Entry of women in Register of Inmates.

Removal of names from Register of Inmates.

Duty of owners.

Daty of keeper of brothel.

None but registered

inmates allowed to reside in brothel.

Children not to reside in or frequent brothel.

Trade or business not to

be carried on in registered brothel.

Rules to be hung up in brothel.

THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 21ST MARCH, 1891.

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(2.) Provided that no part of a house shall be registered as a brothel, nor any house where any trade or business is carried on, nor any house communicating by any passage, door, or otherwise with any house or room in which any trade or business is carried on, and provided also that the Registrar General may at any time refuse to register and may at any time cancel or suspend the registration of a brothel.

7. Every keeper of a registered brothel shall enter into a bond in such a sum and with such securities as the Registrar General shall think fit for the due observance by such keeper of all the requirements of this Ordinance or of any rules and regulations which shall be made thereunder. The Registrar General may at any time require the said keeper to renew any of the sureties to the said bond.

8. (1.) All persons whose names are required to be entered on the Register of In- mates must be brought by the keeper to the office of the Registrar General, and no person's name shall be entered on such Register except with her consent personally given to the Registrar. General.

(2.) Photographs in duplicate of all persons who are entered on the Register of Inmates of a brothel shall be supplied by the keeper to the Registrar General one to be kept in his Office the other to be retained by such registered inmate.

(3.) On an application being made to him to enter a person on the Register of In- mates, the Registrar General shall personally interview such person, with the view of ascertaining that such application is made with her consent. He shall also make the enquiries necessary for obtaining the particulars required by these rules to be entered in the Register of Inmates.

(4.) The Registrar General shall further enquire whether or not the person comes within the provisions of Part 2 of the Ordinance, and if he is of opinion that she does, shall take measures for her protection accordingly.

9. If any registered inmate of a brothel desires to leave the brothel, the keeper shall forthwith bring her before the Registrar General, who shall then, after making such enquiry as he thinks fit, remove her name from the Register of Inmates. Provided that nothing shall prevent any inmate from herself applying direct to the Registrar General that her name may be removed from the Register of Inmates, which shall be forthwith done on such application.

10. It shall be the duty of the owner of a brothel to see that the premises are kept in a habitable condition, and that the latrines, drains and other sanitary appliances are kept in good order.

11. It shall be the duty of the keeper of a brothel :-

(a.) To keep the premises clean.

(b.) To maintain decency and good order amongst the inmates and frequenters

of the brothel.

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(c.) To report at once to the Registrar General,--

(1.) Any change of ownership of the brothel.

(2.) Any change in the inmates of the brothel.

(3.) Every case of infectious or epidemic disease occurring in the brothel.

(4.) Every instance of riotous or disorderly conduct in the brothel on the

part of persons not being inraates.

(d.) To see that the provisions of the Ordinance or of any rules or regula- tions for the time being in force thereunder are observed in the brothel. 12. No woman or girl who is not registered as an inmate of the brothel shall be allowed by the keeper to reside in, frequent or visit the brothel.

age of five years. This prohibition does not extend to children under the

13. No children between the ages of five and sixteen shall be allowed by the keeper to reside in, frequent or visit the brothel.

14. No trade or business shall be carried on in any portion of a house used as a registered brothel.

15. The keeper of a registered brothel shall keep hung up in a conspicuous place in every room of the brothel :

(1.) A copy, in the language of every inmate, of such of the rules and regu- lations for the time being in force under the Ordinance as the Governor shall direct.

(2.) A list of the names and ages of the inmates thereof in such languages as

the Registrar General may direct.

(3.) A notice in such languages as the Registrar General may direct that every inmate is at liberty to visit the Lock Hospital for gratuitous advice and treatment if she is or fears she is diseased.