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Enclosure 7., c.o.

Hon. Colonial Secretary,

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Articles 1 a 15, SEP 13

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nvention signed at Paris

on the 4th. May, 1910, are those which define the nature of the specific offences condemned by the Convention signed at Paris on 4th. may, 1910; but they must be read in con.ection with clause8 a, b, c, and d of the final Protocol of the same date if they are to be clearly understood, and of these clause (b) is the most important. Article 1 deals with the procuring, enticing, or leading a ay of a wolen or girl wuer are for imoral purposes even with her consent. Article 2 deals with the procuring, enticing or load- -ing away by fraud, violence, threats, abuse of authority or any # other method of compulsion of a woman or girl over ane for

imoral purposos. By clause (b) of the final Protжcol, a vouan or

girl under age means a woman o. irl under 20 completed years of

age, anti similarly a woman or girl quer ale refers to a welian or

girl over 20 doploted years of age. It should be observed wat

both Articles 1 and 2 of the Convention state that offenders should

be punished notwithstanding that the various Acts constitucing the

offonce may mave been committed in different countries. With regard

to the puniament, clause (o) of the Convention provides that at

any Aime rate imprisonment shall form part of the penalty. With

regard to Mile punishment of the offences designated though the

various acta cuns tituling the offence may have been comitted

in different countries, I do not imagine that it is intended that

local legislation should specifically state this decision of the

Convention, and I am inclined to assume (although I may not be

correct) thet the form and the language which the loislation of

Great Britain, for example, has taken is sufficient to include offences comitted under circumstances there i.e. in Great Britain

apparent and adequate to avoid either the necessity for obtaining evidence of the comission in other countries of parts of the Acts constituting an offence (broadly defined in the first and second articles in the Convention) or to prevent an evasion of punisment by an individual who may comit different parts of the offence

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