PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND JUVENILES (WARD REGISTRATION) REGULATIONS

PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND JUVENILES (WARD REGISTRATION) REGULATIONS

PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND JUVENILES (WARD
REGISTRATION) REGULATIONS.

(Cap. 213, section 39).

[5th January, 1951.]

These regulations may be cited as the Protection of Women
and Juveniles (Ward Registration) Regulations.

2. In these regulations, unless the context otherwise
requires,,authorized officer' includes the Director of Social Welfare, any
District Officer, police officer not below the rank of inspector, and any
other person so authorized by the Director of Social Welfare;
'custodian' means any person having the possession, custody or
control of any female infant the legal guardianship of whom is vested in
the Director of Social Welfare;

.,ward' means any female infant the legal guardianship of whom is
vested in the Director of Social Welfare.

3. Notice required by section 37(2) shall be given by reporting
verbally or in writing to any authorized officer the particulars in so far as
they can be reasonably ascertained which are prescribed in the
Schedule. Penalty: a fine of two hundred dollars.

4. Any such report shall be recorded by the person giving the
notice or by the authorized officer receiving it on the form prescribed in
the Schedule, shall be signed by the ward's custodian and, if made in any
place other than the Social Welfare Department, shall be transmitted
forthwith to the Director of Social Welfare.

5. (1) The custodian shall report to the Director of Social Welfare
either directly or through any authorized officer

(a) the death of his ward;
(b) the disappearance of his ward;

(c)any temporary or permanent change of address at which the
ward or the custodian resides;

(d)any intended change in the education or occupation of the
ward;

(e) the intended marriage of the ward;
the intended removal of the ward from the Colony,
whether temporarily or permanently.

(2)(a) Any report under sub-paragraph (a), (b), or (c) of paragraph
(1) of regulation 5 shall be made within three days of the death
or disappearance of the ward or of the change of address of the
custodian or of the ward as the case may be;





(b)any report required under sub-paragraph (d) or (f) of paragraph
(1) of regulation 5 shall be given at least four days before the
intended change or removal as the case may be;

(c)any report required under sub-paragraph (c) of paragraph (1) of
regulation 5 must be given at least one month before the
intended marriage:

Penalty: for any breach of this regulation a fine of two hundred dollars.

SCHEDULE. [regs. 3 4.1

PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND JUVENILES
ORDINANCE.
(Chapter 213).

REGISTRATION OF WARDS OF THE DIRECTOR OF SOCIAL
WELFARE.

Particulars of Ward.

*1. Name and Sex of Ward

2.................Serial Number .............. .....................................

3. Date of Registration

4................Date of Ward's Birth .........
5................Place of Ward's Birth ....................................... ............

*6. Ward's Home District or Village .....................

.......................
*7. Ward's Father's Name ...........

*8. Ward's Mother's Name .................... ..................................

Particulars of Custodian.

*9. Custodian's Name and Sex ............................................................

*10. Custodian's Home District or Village ....................................

............ 1

11. Custodian's Hong Kong Address ...
12. Custodian's Occupation and Hong Kong Business Address ..................

.1 .....................1 ......1 1

*13. Custodian's Husband's/Wife's Name .....................................

14. Custodian's Husband's/Wife's Occupation and Business Address

...............11 1

Interpreted by:

Photograph

...................................... 1 of Ward and

Custodian's Signature. of Custodian.

Date: ..................................







Note: --- (1) Items 1, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 13 are to be completed in Chinese characters as well
as in English if the person referred to is of Chinese race.

(2)Changes reported from time to time in any of the particulars given above may be endorsed either on
the face or, if there is no available space, on the reverse of this Form.
1 of 1951, Second Schedule. 1 of 1958. Citation. Interpretation. 1 of 1958, s. 2. 1 of 1958, s. 2. 1 of 1958, s. 2. Registration of prescribed particulars. Recording and signature of report. 1 of 1958, s. 2. Further reports by ward's custodian. 1 of 1958, s. 2. 1 of 1958, s. 2.

1 of 1951, Second Schedule. 1 of 1958. Citation. Interpretation. 1 of 1958, s. 2. 1 of 1958, s. 2. 1 of 1958, s. 2. Registration of prescribed particulars. Recording and signature of report. 1 of 1958, s. 2. Further reports by ward's custodian. 1 of 1958, s. 2. 1 of 1958, s. 2.

https://oelawhk.lib.hku.hk/items/show/2870

1964

v14

213

2