5.
Female Domestic Service.
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Colony.
No person shall bring or cause to be brought any mui tsai into the Colony. Notwithstanding anything contained in section 26 of the Magistrates Ordinance, any complaint or information in respect of an offence against this section may be made or laid at any time.
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6. No person shall have in his employment any female domestic servant under the age of twelve years.
Prohibition of maidservants under twelve.
24 of 1950, Schedule.
penalty.
7. Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Ordinance shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars and to imprisonment for six months.
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8. No prosecution under this Ordinance shall be commenced without the consent of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
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9. In every prosecution under this Ordinance it shall until the contrary is proved be presumed that the girl in question was a mui tsai in the employment of the accused at the time of the alleged offence, and this onus shall not be deemed to be discharged by mere proof that the girl was described in any transaction by some term other than mui tsai.
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10. In every prosecution under this Ordinance, whether evidence be called on the question of age or not, any girl who appears to the magistrate to be of or under or over any particular age shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed for the purposes of such prosecution to be of or under or over such age as the case may be.
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11. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect any right of guardianship vested in the Secretary for Chinese Affairs by virtue of the provisions of the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1938.
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5.
Female Domestic Service.
[CAP. 60
not to be
Colony.
No person shall bring or cause to be brought any Mui tsai mui tsai into the Colony. Notwithstanding anything con- brought into tained in section 26 of the Magistrates Ordinance, any 24 of 1950, complaint or information in respect of an offence against Schedule. this section may be made or laid at any time.
(Cap. 227.)
6. No person shall have in his employment any Prohibition of female domestic servant under the age of twelve years.
maidservants under twelve.
24 of 1950, Schedule.
penalty.
7. Any person who contravenes any of the provisions General of this Ordinance shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars and to imprison- ment for six months.
[16(3)
8. No prosecution under this Ordinance shall be com- Consent. menced without the consent of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
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9. In every prosecution under this Ordinance it shall Onus. until the contrary is proved be presumed that the girl in question was a mui tsai in the employment of the accused at the time of the alleged offence, and this onus shall not be deemed to be discharged by mere proof that the girl was described in any transaction by some term other than mui tsai.
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10. In every prosecution under this Ordinance, whether Age. evidence be called on the question of age or not, any girl who appears to the magistrate to be of or under or over any particular age shall, unless the contrary is proved, be deemed for the purposes of such prosecution to be of or under or over such age as the case may be.
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11. Nothing in this Ordinance shall affect any right saving. of guardianship vested in the Secretary for Chinese Affairs 5 of 1938, s. 45. by virtue of the provisions of the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1938.
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