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(2) No person shall without lawful authority or excuse have in (1.11.29). his employment, custody or control any unregistered Muitsai.

(3) It shall be lawful for the Secretary for Chinese Affairs in his absolute discretion to refuse to register any particular Muitsai and to remove any particular Muitsai from the register.

14. Subject to the period allowed for registration, and subject to No person to have the provisions of section 9, no person shall have in his employment an unregistered Muitsai.

15. Subject to the period allowed for registration, and subject to the provisions of section 9, no person shall have in his employment any female domestic servant under the age of ten years unless such servant is a registered Muitsai.

an unregistered Muitsai in his employment.

No person to have in his employment any female domestic servant under ten, except a registered Muitsai.

16. Every Muitsai of or over the age of ten years shall be entitled Remuneration of to such wages for her services as shall be prescribed.

Muitsai.

17. This Part shall not come into operation until such date as Coming into may be fixed by proclamation of the Governor in Council.

Operation of Part III.

(1.12.29).

PART IV.

18.-(1) Subject to the provisions of sub-section (2), every General penalty. person who contravenes any of the provisions of section 6 shall upon (1.11.29). summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months.

(2) In every prosecution under section 6 the magistrate shall find whether the acts or omissions proved, if any, amounted to gross. cruelty, and if in his opinion they amounted to gross cruelty the offender shall not be given the option of paying a fine but shall be sentenced to imprisonment for any term not exceeding one year.

(3) Every person who contravenes any of the provisions of this Ordinance other than those of section 6, and every person who con- travenes any regulation made under this Ordinance, shall upon sum- mary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.

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No prosecution under this Ordinance shall be commenced Consent. without the consent of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs.

20.

In any prosecution under section 6 it shall be lawful for Frocedure. the magistrate to convict of common assault if he finds that an assault (1.11.29). was committed but does not find that the girl in question was a Mui- tsai.

21. In every prosecution under this Ordinance it shall until the Onus. contrary is proved be presumed that the girl in question was a Mui- (1.11.29). 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 Muitsai.

*As amended by Law Rev. Ordinance, 1924.

(1.11.29). As amended by No. 22 of 1929.

(1.12.29). In operation by Froclamation No. 2 of 1929,