Offences against the Person.
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(2) Any person who without lawful authority or excuse harbours or has in his possession, custody or control any person with respect to whom the temporary or permanent possession, custody or control has been transferred or conferred for valuable consideration by any other person within or without the Colony shall be guilty of a misdemeanor triable summarily and liable to imprisonment for two years. 22 of 1950, s. 3.
(3) Nothing in this section shall be construed as affecting the customary giving or receiving of presents on occasions of bona fide betrothals, weddings or adoptions.
(4) No prosecution under this section shall be instituted without the consent of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs: Provided that such consent shall not be necessary for the arrest of any person suspected of having contravened this section.
(5) The consent of the person intended to be, or actually, unlawfully transferred, taken into possession, custody or control or harboured, or the receipt by such person of the consideration, or any part thereof, shall be no defence to a charge or indictment under this section. [45A
Bigamy.
24 & 25 Vict.
45. Any person who, being married, marries any other person during the life of the former husband or wife shall be guilty of felony, and shall be liable to imprisonment for seven years: Provided that nothing in this section shall extend to any person marrying a second time whose husband or wife has been continually absent from such person for the space of seven years then last past, and has not been known by such person to be living within that time, or to any person who, at the time of such second marriage, has been divorced from the bond of the first marriage, or to any person whose former marriage has been declared void by the sentence of any court of competent jurisdiction.
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Attempts to procure abortion.
46. Any woman, being with child, who, with intent to procure her own miscarriage, unlawfully administers to herself any poison or other noxious thing, or unlawfully uses any instrument to procure abortion.
24 & 25 Vict. c. 100, s. 58.
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