Traffic in females.
"keeper" of premises includes any person having or appearing
to have the management or control of the premises; "marriage" includes non-christian customary marriages duly celebrated according to the personal law and religion of the parties;
"occupier" of premises means the person in actual occupation of
the premises;
"owner" of premises means the person for the time being receiving the rent or a consideration for the use of the premises, whether on his own account or as agent or tlustée for any other person, or who would receivef the same if such phu
receivef
were let to a
tenant; "place of refuge" means any place which the Governor in Council
may by notification in the Gasette declare to be a
place in which females, young persons or children or any of them may be detained for the purposes of, or pursor to powers con- tained in, this Ordinance.
3. (1) Any person who-
(a) takes part in bringing into or taking away from the Colony by force, intimidation or fraud any female for the purpose of prostitution either within or without the Colony, or
(b) takes part in bringing, taking, decoying or enticing any female into or away from the Colony with intent to sell, pledge, let out to bire, purchase, take in pledge, take on hire or otherwise dispose of such female for the purpose of prostitution either within or without the Colony; or (c) takes part in bringing, taking, decoying or enticing any female into or away from the Colony for the purpose of prostitution either within or without the Colony, knowing that such female has been sold, pledged, let out to hire, purchased, taken in pledge, taken on hire; or
(d) takes part in selling, pledging, letting out to hire, pur- chasing, taking in pledge, taking on hire or otherwise disposing of, or in obtaining possession of any female for the purpose of prostitution either within or without the Colony; or
(e) knowingly derives any profit from the sale, pledge, hire, purchase, taking in pledge, taking on hire or other
disposal of any female who has been 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: Provided that in any prosecu- tion under paragraph (c) where it is proved, to the satisfaction of the jury or the magistrate, as the case may be, that the female had in fact been sold, pledged, let out to hire, purchased, taken in pledge or taken on hire, knowledge thereof by the accused shall be presumed unless he satisfies the jury or magistrate that he had not such knowledge.
(2) It shall be no defence to any charge or indictment under this section that the female in question consented to the transaction or that she received the consideration or any part of the consideration therefor,
4. (0) Any person who-
Procuration of females.
Vict.
(4) procures or attempts to procure any female infant not 48 & 19
being a common prostitute or of known immoral character, c. 69. 1. 2. to have unlawful carnal connexion, either within or [ef. No. 3 of without the Colony, with any other person; or
(b) procures or attempts to procure any female to become, either within or without the Colony, a common prostitute;
or
(c) procures or attempts to procure any female to leave the Colony, with intent that she may become an inmate of or frequent a brothel elsewhere; or
(d) procures or attempts to procure any female to leave her usual place of abode in the Colony, with intent that she may become an inmate of or frequent a brothel within or without the Colony,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
(2) No person shall be convicted of any offence under any of paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) of subsection (1) on the evidence of one witness only unless such witness is corroborated in some material particular by evidence implicating the accused.
1903, s. 8 and No. 11 of 1932, E. 89.]