WOMEN AND GIRLS PROTECTION (AMENDMENT) RULES, 1958

3.55 p.m.

The Minister for Labour and Welfare (Tun Lim Yew Hock): Mr Speaker, Sir, I beg to move,

That this Assembly, pursuant to subsection (3) of section 30 of the Women and Girls Protection Ordinance (Chapter 126), resolves that the Women and Girls Protection (Amendment) Rules, 1958, made on the 4th day of September, 1958, published as Gazette Notification No. S 210 of the 12th September, 1958, and presented to the Assembly pursuant to statute on the 23rd September, 1958, as Sessional Paper No. S.L. 38 of 1958, be approved.

Sir, the Salvation Army Women and Girls Industrial Home was first opened in December 1935 at No. 1 Paterson Hill. After the war the Home was reopened at No. 26 Oxley Road, and on 1st July, 1958, it was moved to Nos. 381 and 382, Pasir Panjang Road. The Home is gazetted as a place of safety under the Women and Girls Protection Ordinance (Chapter 126), and as an approved home, remand home, place of detention and place of safety under the Children and Young Persons Ordinance (Chapter 128). Sir, approval of the motion now before this House will give official recognition of the removal of this Home to new premises.

Sir, I beg to move.

Mr Chew Swee Kee: Sir, I second it.

Question put, and agreed to.

Resolved,

That this Assembly, pursuant to subsection (3) of section 30 of the Women and Girls Protection Ordinance (Chapter 126), resolves that the Women and Girls Protection (Amendment) Rules, 1958, made on the 4th day of September, 1958, published as Gazette Notification No. S 210 of the 12th September, 1958, and presented to the Assembly pursuant to statute on the 23rd September, 1958, as Sessional Paper No. S.L. 38 of 1958, be approved.