Crimes Ordinance
Part XII
12-34
Section 135
Cap. 200
16 for whom that person is responsible shall be guilty of
an offence and shall be liable on conviction on indictment
to imprisonment for 10 years. (Replaced 90 of 1991 s. 13.
Amended 31 of 1997 s. 10)
(2) Where a girl or boy is a prostitute or has done an unlawful
sexual act, a person shall be deemed for the purposes of this
section to have caused or encouraged the same if that person
knowingly allowed the girl or boy to consort with, or to enter
or continue in the employment of, any prostitute or person of
known immoral character. (Replaced 90 of 1991 s. 13)
(3) Subject to subsection (4), the persons who for the purposes of
this section are to be treated as responsible for a girl or boy
are—
(a) any person who is her or his parent or legal guardian;
(b) any person who has actual possession or control of
her or him, or to whose charge she or he has been
committed by her or his parent or legal guardian or by a
person having the custody of her or him; and
(c) any other person who has the custody, charge or care of
her or him.
(4) In subsection (3), parent (父母) does not include, in relation
to any girl or boy, a person deprived of her or his custody by
order of a court of competent jurisdiction but, subject to that,
in the case of a girl or boy who has been adopted under the
Adoption Ordinance (Cap. 290) means her or his adopters
and in the case of a girl or boy who is illegitimate, and has
not been so adopted, means her or his mother and any person
who has been adjudged to be her or his putative father.
(Added 1 of 1978 s. 6. Amended 90 of 1991 s. 13)
[cf. 1956 c. 69 s. 28 U.K.]
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