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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 26TH JULY, 1890.

and girls detained under the provisions of this part of the Ordinance and as the Asylum for them during such deten- tion.

18. (1.) Every woman or girl residing in the Asylum shall be subject to such rules and regulations as may be made by the Governor in Council, and every woman or girl who contrary to such rules and regulations leaves any place in which she is residing may be arrested and taken back to such place by any Police Officer or by any Officer appointed under this Ordinance and specially authorised by the Re- gistrar General in writing in that behalf.

(2.) Any person who induces or assists any woman or girl so detained as aforesaid to leave contrary to such rules and regulations as aforesaid the place in which she is resid- ing or knowingly harbours any such woman or girl shall upon conviction before a Magistrate be liable to a fine not ex- ceeding one hundred dollars or to imprisonment with or without hard labour not exceeding three months.

19. In any suit or action which may hereafter be entered for the recovery of any sum due on any promise or agreement which before the 13th April, 1887 (being the date of Ordi- nance No. 9 of 1887) has been entered into before the Registrar General with respect to the custody, maintenance or giving in marriage of any female child, it shall not be necessary for the plaintiff in such suit or action to allege or to prove that any consideration was given for the said promise or agreement, and it shall not be competent for the said defendant to allege in defence that the Registrar General had no authority or power to require such promise or agreement from him, or that no consideration was given for the same.

20. This part of the Ordinance shall only continue in operation for a period of two years from the coming into operation of this Ordinance or such further period or periods as may from time to time be determined by resolution of the Legislative Council.

PART III.

Registration and Regulation of Brothels.

21. (1.) No brothel shall be kept nor shall any place be used as a brothel unless the same shall be registered under this Ordinance in the manner prescribed.

(2.) The keeper of a brothel shall be the person prima- rily responsible for registering such brothel, but if no such registration has been made by him, the owner of such brothel shall be also responsible for the registration, and in default of such registration the owner (if he knowingly allows the place to be used as a brothel) and the keeper shall be liable on conviction by a Magistrate to imprison- ment with or without hard labour for a term not exceed- ing six months or to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars or to both. Provided that no prosecution shall be commenced against the owner without the Fiat of the Attorney General.

(3.) A brothel which is duly registered under this Ordi- nance shall not be deemed a public nuisance unless the same be so conducted as to occasion an actual nuisance but nothing herein contained shall deprive any person of any civil remedy which he would otherwise be entitled to in respect of any such brothel.

(4.) The Governor may from time to time by notification in the Gazette prescribe certain limits within which all brothels shall be unlawful and no brothels shall be allowed to be registered within such limits..

(5.) For the purposes of sub-sections 1, 2 and 3 of this section and of section 33 the term brothel does not include a brothel which is used or occupied exclusively by women who are not Asiatic.

Rules for women and girls in Asylum. (See Ibul, B. 15.)

Recovery of suma dus ou promise or agreement already entered inte. (Ibid, u. 26.)

Operation of Part II.

Registration

of brothels. (Ibid, s. 27.)

Responsibility

of keeper.

When brothel to be deemed a public nuisance.

Limits within which brothels inay be kept. (Ord. 19 of 1989, #. 2.)

For certain purposes brothel only to include 'Asiatic' brothels

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PART IV.

General Provisions.

22. The Governor may appoint such Officers as may be necessary for carrying out the provisions of this Ordinance and may make rules for the conduct of their duties.

Power for Governor to

appoint

Officers. (Ibid, a. 55.)