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Mirate of exilence.
10. Upon any such inquiry as aforesaid the enstodian 20/1 such as the
diau or the husband or wife of such custodian shall be competent but not compellable to give evidence therest or at any subsequent inquiry and the Registrar General shall take a minute in narrative form of all evidence taken before him.
Power in pend. If upon any such inquiry as aforesaid, the Registrar General shall be satisfied that any offence has been com- mitted by the enstodian contrary to the provisions in the first part of this Ordinauec contained, he shall subject as in the next section provided, either soud the case before a Magistrate or commit the custodian for trial at the next Criminal Sessions of the Supreme Court. In case the Registrar General shall communit the case for trial it shall be lawful for the Registrar General to admit the custodian to bail in the same manner as a person cont- mitted for trial by a Magistrate at the Supreme Court may be whitted to bail, and in the case of the non-appearance of the custodian to take his trial at such sessious the recog- nizance may be estreated and payment of the moneys thereby secured may be enforced in the same manner as if made and entered into bofore a Magistrate. In case the enstodian is committed for trial as aforesaid the Registrar General shall theronpon transmit the original minutes of the evidence taken upon sneh inquiry to the Registrar of the Supreme Court who shall cause a true copy thereof to be transmitted to the Crown Solicitor. The Registrar of the Supreme Court shall deal with such evidence in the muner in which Magistrate's depositions are dealt with. 12 21. If upon sach inquiry as aforesaid the Registrar General is satisfied that any woman or girl has been brought into the Colony either after having been purchased or by frand mis-representation or false pretence for immoral pur- poses or for purposes of emigration or that any woman has been purchased and is being trained as a prostitute or is being detained against her will for immoral purposes or for purposes of emigration or that the custodian of any girl between the age of six and teen is training each girl as a prostitute or that it is his iutention to dispose of her as a prostitute, the Registrar General may (subject to the provisions of Section ) make an order for the proper custody of such woman or girl in a place of safety to be provided under this Ordinance hereinafter referred to as the Asylum or if in his discretion he shall think fit he may require the custodian to furnish sufficient security with or without sureties that such purpose or intention shall not be carried out, and that such woman or girl be pro- duced before him when required and may in addition thereto require the custodian to furnish him with a photo- graph of sneh woman or girl.
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or security in certain cases.
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23. (a.) If the case is sent before a Magistrate or the custodian is committed for trial under Section 2 or
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(b.) If the enstodian fail to give any sneh security as is provided by Section 2, or
(c.) If the custodian cannot be found or upon
service of a summons mnder Section fails to appear at the time and place named in the summons or neglects to at- tend suy adjourned enquiry under this part of the Ordinance,
It shall be lawful for the Registrar General to make an order for the custody of any woman or girl as aforesaid in the Asylum: Provided always that,-
(i.) Every order made for the custody of any woman or girl under this part of the Ordi- mauce if such person is under the age of teen years, shall provide for her deten- tion nutil she attain that age, or if such girl be within 3 mouths of such age for any period beyond not exceeding 3 months or if such person be over the age of fifteen- years shall provide for her detention for three months only from the date thereof-- (i) From and after such age and time respectively, no woman or girl shall be detained in such place of safety against her will-
(iii) Every such order if purporting to be signed by the Registrar General shall be sufficient autho- rity for the detention of any woman or girl.
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2. Whenever the Registrar General shall have reason to believe that any girl between the ages of six and years is in the custody, power, or possession of any person who has no legal right to such custody, and that it is prejudicial to the interests and liberty of such girl that she should continue in the custody of such person, it shall be lawful for the Registrar General to make application to a Judge in chambers for a writ of Habeas Corpus.
On the return of the said writ tho said Judge shall make such order respecting the custody, education, and bringing up of the said girl, and on such conditious as he shall deeni best in the interest of the said girl.
Ju dealing with such cases no parent who has voluntarily parted with such girl for the purpose of adoption into another family, or who has received money for the parting with the custody of the girl for any other purpose shall be dermed to be entitled as of right to the custody of such girl as its natural guardian.
24. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Concil out of moneys to be provided by the legislative Council for that purpose to provide a suitable building or buildings for the purposes of temporarily housing and maintaining women and girls detained under the provisions of this part of the Ordi- nance and as the Asylum for them during such detention.
25. (1.) The Governor in Council shall have power to make rules and regulations for the Asylum including rules and regulations for all women or girls dermined under the provisions of this Ordinance and every such woman or girl who contrary to such rules and regulations. leaves any place in which she is detained may be arrested and taken back to such place by any Police Officer or by any Officer appointed under this Ordinance and specially authorised by the Registrar General in writing in that bebalf.
(2.) Any person who induces or assists any woman or girl so detained as aforesaid to leave contrary to such rules and regulations as aforesaid the place in which she is detained or knowingly harbours any such woman or girl shall upon conviction before a Magistrate be liable to a fiue not exceed-
ing one hundred dollars or to imprisonment with or without
hard labour not exceeding three months.
28. In any suit or action which may hereafter be entered for the recovery of any sum dne on any promise or agreement which before the 13th April, 1887, (being the date of Ordi- nance No. 9 of 1887), has been eutered into before the Re- gistrar General with respect to the custody, maintenance or giving in marriage of any female child, it shall not be necessary for the plaintiff in such suit or action to allege or to prove that any consideration was given for the said promise or agreement, and it shall not be competent for the said defendant to allege in defence that the Registrar General had no authority or power to require such promise or agreement from him, or that to consideration was given for the same.
PART III.
REGISTRATION AND INSPECTION OF BROTHELS, FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF BROTUEL SLAVERY AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
Registered Brothels.
27. (1.) No brothel shall be kept nor shall any place be as a brothel unless the same shall be registered in
Amanner hereinafter prescribed.
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(2.) The Governor way from time to time by notification in the Gazette prescribe one or more districts within which all brothels shall be unlawful and no brothel within such district or districts shall be allowed to be registered.
(3) The Registrar General may at any time refuse to register or may at any time cancel or suspend the registra- tion of any brothel
that an
appeal 28. Every keeper of a registered brothe! shall enter into a to the foren may be made against any
norder!
(Regus).
hond in snel a sum and with such securities as the Registrar Goneral shall think fit for the due observance by such keeper of all the requirements of this Ordinance or of any rules and regulations which shall be made thereunder. The Registrar General may at any time require the said keeper to renew any of the sureties to the said Bond,
80, Na Prothel skull be permitter to be kept in any house in which any side of business is carried on hor in any house communicating by any passage door or otherwise with any bease or rog in which any trade business is
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