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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, shall 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 months or to a fine not ex- ceeding 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 condnet 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 nuisance or annoyance, may require 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 brothel shall be rendered thereby ipso facto void, but the registered inmates shall not be liable by reason thereof to penalties under section 17 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 month or such other sums as may from time to time he fixed by Regulations 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 & house and to take into custody any person who appears, or behaves, as the person having the care or management of such house or portion of a house, and any women who may appear to be there for the purpose of prostitution.
18. Whenever the Registrar General or 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 uuregistered, 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 offenec,
17. Whenever the Registrar General bas reason to suspect that a house or a portion of a house is used as an nregistered brothel, he may institute an investigation with reference thereto and for such purpose or for the purpose of any appeal may summon in writing before him the house- holder or his agent and any tenant 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 form 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.
Inspectiers of registered linte4R by Registrar General,
Sec. 15 of Delimano 10
of 17 and 35 and Vic.
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