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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, MAY 13, 1928.

14. After service of such notice as is mentioned in Power to

tenancies of

used in con-

12.

section 13 any magistrate may, at the request of any such determine owner, tenant, attorney, agent, rent collector, secretary or premises manager, make an order (which shall be recognized and given travention effect to in any proceeding in any court) absolutely putting of section an end to any existing tenancy or sub-tenancy of such premises as from the date of such order, and thereupon such tenancy or sub-tenancy shall absolutely cease and determine for all purposes and the occupier, tenant or sub-tenant of such premises may thereafter be treated as a trespasser.

where

within

15. If, after service of such notice as is mentioned in Penalty on section 13, an offence against section 12 is proved to have owner, etc., been committed by any person within three months after premises such service, the person upon whom service is made (and, again used if he be an attorney, agent or rent collector, also the landlord three whom he represents) shall be liable on summary conviction contraven- to a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars, unless he proves tion of to the satisfaction of the magistrate that he neither knew nor had reasonable means of knowing that the premises were being used as a lodging house for prostitutes or as a brothel.

months in

section 12.

authorized persons to

suspected

16. Any European officer of police, not being below the Powers of rank of sergeant, who is authorized generally in writing for that purpose by the Commissioner of Police, and visit

any person who is authorized generally in writing for that purpose premises. by the Secretary for Chinese 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) Every male person who-

Living on earnings

tion or

(a) knowingly lives wholly or in part on the earnings of of prostitu- prostitution; or

(b) solicits for immoral purposes,

shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

soliciting, by males, etc.

61 & 62 Vict. c. 39, s. 1, and 2 & 3 Geo.

of 1903.

(2) If it is made to appear to a magistrate, by information 5, e. 20, upon oath, that there is reason to suspect that any house s. 7. or any part of a house is used by a female for the purposes cf. No. 3 of prostitution and that any male person in or frequenting the house is living wholly or in part on the earnings of prostitution therein, the magistrate may issue a warrant authorizing any police officer to enter and search the house and to arrest such male person.

(3) Where a male person is proved to live with or to be habitually in the company of a prostitute or is proved to have exercised control, direction or influence over the move- ments of a prostitute in such a manner as to show that he is aiding, abetting or compelling her prostitution with any other person or generally, he shall, unless he can satisfy the court or the magistrate to the contrary, be deemed to be knowingly living on the earnings of prostitution.

(4) Every female who is proved to have, for the purposes of gain, exercised control, direction or influence over the movements of a prostitute in such a manner as to show that

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