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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 12TH MARCH, 1887.
If Custodian declines to have the matter dealt with by the Registrar General, the case may be remitted to a Magistrate.
Registrar General may apply for Habeas
Corpus.
Recovery of
sums due on promise or agreement already
entered into.
Governor in Council may make Regulations.
Forms,
should think fit to leave the said child with the said Custodian he may require the latter to furnish such security in such an amount with such sureties as he shall think fit
the for
proper care and bringing up of the said child.
The Registrar General may also call upon the said Custodian to furnish him with a photograph of the said child.
5. If the said Custodian declines to have the matter dealt with by the Registrar General the said Registrar General shall make an order for the temporary custody of the said child and shall remit the matter to a Police Magis- trate who on hearing the parties shall if he is satisfied that the child is being trained as a prostitute or that it is the intention of the Custodian thereof to dispose of the said child as a prostitute or that the said child has been pur- chased for the purpose of emigration may make an order in conformity with the provisions of Section 4 of this Ordinance.
6. Whenever the Registrar General shall have reason to believe that any female child between the ages of six and sixteen years is in the custody, power or possession of any person who has no legal right to such custody, and that it is prejudicial to the interests, and liberty of such child that she should continue in the custody of such person, it shall be lawful for the Registrar General to make appli- cation to a Judge in chambers for a writ of Habeas Corpus.
On the return of the said writ the said Judge shall make such order respecting the custody, education, and bringing up of the said child, and on such conditions as he shall deem best in the interest of the said child.
In dealing with such cases no parent who has voluntarily parted with such child for the purpose of adoption into another family or who has received money for the parting with the custody of the child for any other purpose shall be deemed to have any legal right to the custody of such child as its natural guardian.
7. In any action which may hereafter be entered for the recovery of any sum due on any promise or agreement which before the coming into operation of this Ordinance 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 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.
8. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council to make and when made to alter, amend, or revoke all Rules and Regulations necessary for the efficient working of this Ordinance.
9. The forms contained in the Schedule to this Ordinance shall be the forms to be used when required under this Ordinance.
SCHEDULES.
A.
Notice under Section 1 of Ordinance No.
To A.B.
residing at
of 1887.
In virtue of the powers conferred on me by section 1 of Ordinance No.
of 1887, I do hereby require you the said A.B. to appear before me at my office situate in
at
of the clock in the
on
noon and then and
there to bring and produce one C.D. a female child now in your custody or under your control.
Dated this
Eight hundred and
day of
in the year One thousand
3
Registrar General.
Take Notice that if you do not obey this summons you are liable to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars, and in défault of paying the said sum to imprisonment not exceeding six months.
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