Penalty on owner, etc., where premises again used within three months in contraven- tion of
section 12.
Amendment of section 16
of Ordinance No. 4 of
1897.
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such premises as from the date of such order, and thereupon such tenancy or sub-tenancy shall absolutely cease and determine for all purposes and the occupier, tenant or sub- tenant of such premises may thereafter be treated as a tres- passer.
15. If, after service of such notice as is mentioned in section 13, an offence against section 12 is proved to have been committed by any person within three months after such service, the person upon whom service is made (and, if he be an attorney, agent or rent collector, also the landlord whom he represents) shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, unless he proves to the satisfaction of the magistrate that he neither knew nor had reasonable means of knowing that the premises were being used as a lodging house for prostitutes or as a brothel.
4. Section 16 of the Protection of Women and Girls Ordinance, 1897, is amended by the deletion of the words "or disorderly persons" in the ninth line.
Objects and Reasons.
1. The object of clauses 2 and 3 of this Bill is to get rid of a group of sections 12, 124, 13, 14 and 15 of Ordin- ance No. 4 of 1897, which belong to the days when houses of ill-fame were tolerated, when they were not disorderly, dangerous or a nuisance, and to substitute new sections 12, 13, 14 and 15, which are more appropriate to the policy of complete suppression of such establishments.
2. Clause 4 deletes from section 16 the words "or disorderly persons" a phrase which was used in the repealed sections 12A, 13, 14 and 15, but which is not used in the new substituted sections.
May, 1936.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.