or, If any woman authorized by this Ordinance to be detained in a Hospital for medical treatment quits the Hospital without being discharged therefrom by the Visiting Surgeon by writing under his hand (the proof whereof shall lie on the accused); or, If any woman authorized by this Ordinance to be detained in a Hospital for medical treatment or any woman being in a Hospital under medical treatment for a contagious disease refuses or wilfully neglects while in the Hospital to conform to the regulations thereof made and approved under this Ordinance; then and in every such case such woman shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance and on summary conviction shall be liable to imprisonment with or without hard labour in the case of a first offence for any term not exceeding one month, and in case of a second or any subsequent offence for any term not exceeding three months, and in case of the offence of quitting the Hospital without being discharged as aforesaid, the woman may be taken into custody without warrant by any Constable.
52. If any woman is convicted of and imprisoned for the offence of absconding herself or of refusing or neglecting to submit herself to examination as aforesaid, the order subjecting her to periodical medical examination shall be in force after and notwithstanding her imprisonment.
53. If any woman is convicted of and imprisoned for the offence of quitting a Hospital without being discharged the certificate of the Visiting Surgeon under which she was detained in the Hospital shall continue in force and on the expiration of her term of imprisonment she shall be sent back from the prison to that Hospital and shall (notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance) be detained there under that certificate as if it were given on the day of the expiration of her term of imprisonment unless a Visiting Surgeon appointed under this Ordinance at the time of her discharge from imprisonment certifies in writing to the effect that she is then free from a contagious disease (proof of which certificate shall lie on her) and in that case the certificate under which she was detained, shall cease to operate, but any order subjecting her to periodical medical examination shall be in force after and notwithstanding her imprisonment.
54. Every order under this Ordinance subjecting a woman to periodical medical examination shall be in operation and enforceable in manner in this Ordinance provided so long as and whenever from time to time the woman to whom it relates is within the Colony but not in any case for a longer period than one year, unless she has been relieved from such examination as hereinafter provided.
55. If any woman subjected to a periodical medical examination under this Ordinance (either on her own submission or under the order of the Registrar General) desiring to be relieved therefrom and not being under detention in a Hospital makes application in writing in that behalf to the Registrar General he shall appoint by notice in writing a time and place for the hearing of the application and shall cause the notice to be delivered to the applicant.
56. If on the hearing of the application it is shown to the satisfaction of the Registrar General that the applicant has ceased to be a common prostitute or if the applicant with the approval of the Registrar General enters into a recognizance with or without sureties as to the Registrar General seems meet for her good behaviour during three months thereafter the Registrar General shall order that she be relieved from periodical medical examination.
Quitting Hospital without leave.
Disobedience of Hospital regulations.
Imprisonment for absence, &c., from examination.
Extent of order of imprisonment for quitting Hospital, &c.
Order to operate whenever from time to time the woman is within the Colony but not for more than one year.
Application for relief from examination.
Order for relief from examination on discontinuance of prostitution.