THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 20TH APRIL, 1889.
25. (1) The Governor in Council shall have power to make rules and regulations for the Asylum including rules and regulations for all women or girls detained under the provisions of this Ordinance and every such woman or girl who contrary to such rules and regulations leaves any place in which she is detained 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 Registrar 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 detained or knowingly harbours any such woman or girl shall upon conviction before a Magistrate be liable to a fine not exceed- ing one hundred dollars or to imprisonment with or without hard labour not exceeding three months.
26. In any suit or action which may hereafter be entered for the recovery of any sum duc 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 Re- gistrar General with respect to the custody, maintenance or giving in marriage of any female child, it shall not be neccssary 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. PART III.
REGISTRATION AND INSPECTION OF BROTHELS, FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF BROTHEL SLAVERY AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
Registered Brothels.
27. (1.) No brothel shall be kept nor shall any place be kept as a brothel unless the same shall be registered in manner hereinafter prescribed.
(2.) The Governor may from time to time by notification in the Gazette prescribe one or more districts within which all brothels shall be unlawful and no brothel shall be al- lowed to be registered within such district or districts.
(3.) The Registrar General may at any time refuse to register or may at any time cancel or suspend the registra- tion of
any brothel.
28. 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 Genoral may at any time require the said keeper to renew any of the sureties to the said Bond.
29. No Brothel shall be permitted to be kept in any house in which any trade or business is carried on nor in . any house communicating by any passage door or otherwise with any house or room in which any trade or business is carried on.
30. A Register of Brothels shall be kept in the Office of the Registrar General who shall cause to be entered therein :-
(1.) The name and address of every Keeper of such
Brothel.
(2.) The address of every House whereof the whole or any part shall be occupied or used as a Brothel. (3.) The name and address of the Householder of every such House or of the Tenant of every part of such House. (4.) Any other particulars which the Registrar Gene- ral may from time to time deem expedient to be entered in the said Register, subject nevertheless to such Regulations as the Governor in Council may make.
31. Every Keeper of a Registered Brothel shall cause a list of the names and ages of the Inmates thereof in the English language and also in such other language as the Registrar General may direct, to be affixed in some conspi- cuous place in such Brothel and the said keeper shall canse the said list to be altered from time to time as occasion may require, and shall furuish the Registrar General with a copy of such list and of all alterations made therein, together with a photograph of every inmate whose name is on such list.
Hales, &c for detention of
woman, &e,
Recovery of Bums ie on promise or agreement already entered into. [1bid. Sec. 7.]
No brothel
without license.
Hond of. keeper.
No Registered Brothel to he kept in a house, &c.,
where any trade is carried on. [Ibid, Sec. 8.]
A Register of Registered Brothels to be kept.
Tbid. Sec. 10.]
Keeper of Licensed Brothel to exhibit and to furnish to the Registrar General a list of inmates. (Ibid. Sec. 11-1
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