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392 ORDINANCE No. 12 OF 1857.


Venereal Diseases.


Upon the third 3. Upon the occasion of any person being for the third time convicted of such
conviction for
keeping a brothel offence as is aforesaid , it shall be lawful for the Magistrate before whom such conviction
contrary to
provisions of this
Ordinance, Ma shall take place, by warrant under his hand, to remove all the inmates of the house
gistrate may
shut up the house wherein such offender shall have dwelt or resided, and to close up such house, and
in which the
same is kept. forbid the same to be reinhabited , unless he shall be satisfied that the same will be
occupied in a proper and legal manner, and not as a brothel within the meaning of this
Ordinance, if situated outside of the aforesaid districts, or, either as a registered
brothel, or in any other proper and legal manner , if within the said districts or any of

them ; and that every person reinhabiting such house, without a licence or permission
[ See Ord. No. 6 *
under the hand of the Chief or Assistant Magistrate, shall be liable to a penalty
of 1862.]
of not more than five hundred current dollars, or to imprisonment for a term not
exceeding twelve months.
Mode of proof
that a house is 4. The averment of two witnesses made on oath or by affirmation , * that any
a brothel.
house is occupied as a brothel, may be received as sufficient evidence of such fact ; and
[ See Ord. No. 2
of 1860.] any person who shall appear, act, or behave himself or herself as master or mistress, or
as the person having the care or management of any brothel, shall be deemed and
taken to be the keeper thereof, and shall be liable to be punished as such, notwithstand
ing he or she shall not, in fact, be the real owner or keeper thereof.
Registrar Gener 5. The Registrar General shall keep a register of all brothels, and shall enter in
al to keep a
register of
brothels, with such register the names of the keeper of each of such brothels, and also of the
names of
keepers, &c. immediate landlord or lessor thereof, also of the Crown lessee or tenant of the plot of
ground on which the same may be standing or built, and shall keep it corrected from
time to time, according as such keeper, immediate landlord or lessor, or Crown lessee
or tenant, respectively, may change, and according as any such house shall cease at
any time to be occupied as a brothel ; and shall furnish the Colonial Secretary with a
copy of such register, and shall inform him from time to time of such corrections as
may from time to time be made in such register as aforesaid.
Brothels declared 6. Whenever any house shall be, in the opinion of the Registrar General, a house
to be such bythe
Registrar Gener
al. in which women reside, or which they frequent for the purposes of prostitution, the
Registrar General shall forthwith declare such house to be a brothel, and shall give
notice to the immediate landlord or lessor thereof, or if such immediate landlord or
lessor cannot be found or ascertained , then to the Crown lessee of the plot of ground
on which the same be built, that such house has been declared by him to be a brothel,
and as such, comes within the provisions of the second and third sections of this
Ordinance ; and in case such immediate landlord or Crown lessee or tenant shall
dispute such declaration of the Registrar General, then the party so disputing such
Appeal. declaration shall have an appeal to the Chief or Assistant Magistrate, or to any two
Justices of the Peace sitting for either of such Magistrates, who are hereby empowered
to adjudicate on such appeals, and whose decision thereon shall be final.
Registered 7. Brothels registered under the provisions of section 5 of this Ordinance, shall
brothels to be
visited by certain be liable to be visited by the Registrar General, and by the Superintendent, Deputy
officers.
Superintendent, and Inspectors of Police, and by the Colonial Surgeon or other