Penalty on
occupier or
keeper of premises
used as a
lodging bause for prostitutes
Or as a
brothel.
Service of notice of offence
wunder
section 12 on owner, ete.
Frwer to determine
tenancies of
premises. used in contra-
in or upon such vessel or premises for the purpose of being un- lawfully and carnally known by any man, whether such carnal knowledge is intended to be with any particular nuan or generally,
shall
(a) if such girl is of or above the age of thirteen years and under the age of sixteen years be guilty of a mis- demeanor; and
(b) if such girl is under the age of thirteen years be guilty of
felony and shall be liable to imprisonment for life.
12. Any occupier or keeper of a house or portion of a house and any master or other person in control of a vessel who uses it or knowingly permits it to be used as a lodging house for prostitutes or as a brothel shall be guilty of an offence: Penalty-
on first offence;
On
second offence (whether in respect of same or other premises);
on third or subsequent offence (whether in respect of same other premises);
or
a fine of one thousand dollars and imprisonment for three months;
a fine of two thousand dollars and imprisonment for six months;
a fine of five thousand dollars and imprisonment for one year.
13. Where it has been proved to the satisfaction of a magis- trate that an offence under section 12 has been committed with respect to any house or portion of a house he may order that a notice of the fact shall be served, either personally or by registered post, upon the owner or tenant of the premises or, if such owner or tenant is absent or under any disability, upon his attorney, agent or rent collector, or, if such owner or tenant is a corporation, upon the secretary or manager thereof.
14. After service of such notice as is mentioned in section 13 any magistrate may, at the request of any such owner, tenant, attorney, agent, rent collector, secretary or munnger, make an order (which shall be recognized and given effect to in any proceeding in any court) absolutely putting an end to any existing vention of tenancy or sub-tenancy of such premises as from the date of such section 12.
order, and thereupon suci tenancy or sub-tenancy shall absolutely cease and determine for all purposes and the occupier, tenant or sub-tenant of such premises may thereafter he treated as a Trespasser.
Any such order shall be sufficient authority to any con- stable to enter (by force, if needful) into the premises and give
possession of the same, or any part thereof specified in the order, to the landlord or his agent : Provided that such entry shall not be made at any time except between 9 a.m, and 5 p.m. : Provided also that the powers given by this section shall be in addition to and not in derogation of any powers conferred by or under any other enactment.
again
15. If, after service of such notice as is mentioned in section Penalty on
owner, etc.. 13, an offence against section 12 is proved to have been com➡ where mitted by any person within three months after such service, the premises person upon whom service is made (and, if he be an attorney, used within or rent collector, also the landlord whom he represents) three shall be guilty of an offence unless he proves to the satisfaction in contra- of the magistrate that he neither kaew nor had reasonable means vention of sectiou 12. of knowing that the premises were being used as a lodging house for prostitutes or as a brothel Penalty: a fine of two thousand dollars.
Jonths
Parsons to
16. Any police officer, not being below the rank of sergeant, Powers of who is authorized generally in writing for that purpose by the authorized Commissioner of Police, and any person who is authorized visit generally in writing for that purpose by the Secretary for Chinese suspected premises. Affairs, may at all times, without notice, enter and demand to see and interrogate any or all the inmates of any place on land or water which he may have reason to believe is used as a lodging house for prostitutes or as a brothel or in connexion with which he may have reason to believe that an offence has been committed under this Ordinance.
17. (1) Any male person who-
Living on
(2) knowingly lives wholly or in part on the earnings of earnings of
prostitution; or
(b) solicits for immoral purposes,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
PTOS-
titution or
soliciting,
by males, etc.
61 & 02
c. 39. u. 1.
(2) If it is made to appear to a magistrate, by informa. Vict tion upon oath, that there is reason to suspect that any place on and 2 & 3 land or water is used by a female for the purposes of prostitution Gea 5.
c. 20, d. 7. and that any male person in or frequenting such place is living ref. No. 3 of wholly or in part on the earnings of prostitution therein, the 1903.1 magistrate may issue a warrant authorizing any police officer to enter and search such house and to arrest such male person.
(3) Where a male person is proved to live with or to be habituaily in the company of a prostitute or is proved to have exercised control, direction or influence over the movements of