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(b) receives, harbours, detains or has under his control any unmarried girl under the age of 21 years without the consent of the person having the lawful care or charge of her.
(2) Where any person accused under paragraph (b) of sub-section (1) is proved to have received, harboured, detained or had under his control any female who appears to the magistrate to be under the age of 21 years, it shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed (a) that the female was an unmarried girl, and was under the age of 21 years, at the date of the alleged offence, and (b) that the accused received, harboured or detained her, or had her under his control, without the consent of the person having the lawful care or charge of her.
(3) No prosecution under this section shall be instituted without the consent of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs: Provided that the consent of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs shall not be necessary for the arrest of any person suspected of having committed an offence against this section.
(4) No
person charged under this section shall be entitled to be acquitted on the ground that such person brought the woman or girl into the Colony, or on the ground that such person took the woman or girl, or caused her to be taken, out of the possession of the person having the lawful care or charge of her.
19. Every person who-
Receiving or detaining
ing girls procured or women or girls sold for prostitu tion.
(a) receives, harbours, detains or has under his control or harbour- any girl under the age of 16 years, knowing that she has been procured for the purpose of having unlawful carnal connexion with any other person, and with intent to aid such purpose; or (b) receives, harbours, detains or has under his control any woman or girl, knowing that she has been sold, pledged, let out on hire, purchased or otherwise disposed of either within or without the Colony for the purpose of prostitution, and with intent to aid such purpose; or
(c) receives, harbours, detains or has under his control any woman or girl with intent that she shall be sold, pledged, let out to hire, purchased, taken in pledge, taken on hire or otherwise disposed of for the purpose of prostitution either within or without the Colony,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
women or
girls for
20. Every person who by force, intimidation or any Decoying fraudulent means brings, takes, decoys or entices any woman or girl into or away from the Colony for the purpose emigration. emigration shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
of
21.-(1) Every person who commits the crime of rape Rape. shall be guilty of felony and shall be liable to imprisonment 24 & 25 for life.
Vict.
c. 100, s. 48.
(2) Every man who induces a married woman to permit 48 & 49 him to have carnal connexion with her by personating her Vict. c. 69, husband shall be deemed guilty of rape.
3. 4.