Annex C
Forcible taking or detention of person, with intent to sell him.
Sections 42 & 43 of Chapter 212,
Offences against the Person Ordinance
42. Any person who, by force or fraud, takes away or detains against his or her will any man or boy, woman or female child, with intent to sell him or her, or to procure a ransom or benefit for his or her liberation, shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for fourteen years.
Stealing child 43. (1) Any person who
under 14
years.
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(a) unlawfully, by any means, leads or takes away, or decoys or entices away, or detains any child under the age of fourteen years, with intent to deprive any parent, guardian or other person having the lawful care or charge of such child of the possession of such child, or with intent to steal any article upon or about the person of such child, to whomsoever such article may belong; or
(b)
with any such intent receives or harbours any
such child, knowing the same to have been led, taken, decoyed, enticed away, or detained as in this section before mentioned,
shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for seven years:
Provided that no person who has bona fide claimed any right to the possession of such child,
or is the mother or has bona fide claimed to be the
father of an illegitimate child, shall be liable to be prosecuted by virtue hereof on account of the getting possession of such child or taking such child out of the possession of any person having the lawful charge thereof.
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