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9. Registered brothels shall be subject to inspection and the keeper of a registered brothel, and every other person having or acting in the care or management thereof, shull at all times, when required by the Registrar General or the Inspector of Hospitals or the Captain Superintendent of Police or by any person deputed by any of them, give to the person so requiring free access to every part of such brothel, and any keeper or person who refuses such access shall be liable to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for any term not exceeding six mouths or to a fine not ex- eceding two hundred dollars.
10. The "Registrar General shall cause all registered brothels to be from time to time inspected with a view to. enforce the proper observance of sanitary conditions and any regulations relating thereto made under this Ordinance,
11. Information that any registered brothel is from its situation or by reason of the disorderly or noisy conduct of the inmates or of persons resorting thereto a nuisance or annoyance to the neighbours or the passers by may be given to the Registrar General by any person aggrieved thereby or by any Officer of Police.
12. The Registrar General, if satisfied of the existence of such unisance or aunoyance, may requiro the keeper of the brothel to abate the same.
Any keeper of a brothel who, upon being so required, fails within a reasonable time to abate such nuisance or annoy- ance, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred dollars.
13. Every keeper of a registered brothel shall reside therein and not absent himself from the Colony without giving notice to the Registrar General and appointing some person to act as keeper of the brothel during his absence. If any keeper of a registered brothel fails to comply with the requirements of this section, the registration of such rothel shall be rendered thereby ipso facto void, but the registered inmates shall not be liable by reason thereof to penalties under section 47 of this Ordinance.
14. Every keeper of a registered brothel shall pay to the Registrar General during the continuance of registra- tion a sum of four dollars per mouth or such other sums as may from time to time be fixed by Regulatious made under this Ordinance.
15. Whenever the Registrar General or the Captain Superintendent of Police has reason to suspect that any house or portion of a house is used as an unregistered brothel, he may issue a warrant to any Constable to enter and if necessary to break into such house or portion of a house and to take into custody any person who appears, or behaves, as the person having the care or managercut of such house or portion of a house, and any women who may appear to be there for the purpose of prostitution.
16. Whenever the Registrar General of Captain Superintendent of Police has reason to suspect that any offence is being committed against the liberties of any inmate or inmates of any brothel whether registered or unregistered, such officers or either of them or any person deputed by them or either of them may at any time with- out warrant enter and if necessary break into the house or portion of a house in which such brothel is situate and take into custody any person whom he finds or suspects to be concerned in the commission of any such offence.
17. Whenever the Registrar Genorul has reason to suspect that a house or a portion of a house is used as au unregistered brothel, he may institute an investigation with reference thereto and for such purpose or for the purpose of any appeal may summou in writing before him the house- holder or his agent and any tenuat or occupier of any portion of such house and all other persons capable of giving evidence in such matter and examine them upon oath touching the subject of such investigation, and any person who neglects or refuses to appear before the Registrar General at the time and place specified in such summons or to answer all questions put to him in the course of such examination shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars or to be imprisoned with or without hard labour for any term not exceeding six months, and any person giving false testimony in the course of such exami nation shall be liable to be punished as for perjury,
Inspection of registered
by Registrar Coneri, &e.
Sen. 16 of
Ordine in
of 1987 and 39
And 3 Vic
cap. 65, ver.55.1
Inspection, of registrod houses for sanitary purposes, *. 139 and 30 Vio. typ fl, wers
81, 82, 83 and 84.1
Disorderly brothels {79324
[38 and 39 Vie, cap. 55, sec 90.j
Registrat Ge- nel 10 ahureunianCƏ. [bi, soc. 94.
Brothel. keeper to reside ou pro- 7:11-192
¡Ordinanco 10. of 1867, sec.i]
Monthly fee.
Power to star or break int JASON MU?* pented of
being unregis terad brothels.
(Ibid, sec, 201
Tower to enter
or break in50 registered or resintered brothel to kyprehend offenders.
Investigation by Registrar General as to suspected brothel. [bi vec. 21.]
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