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WOMEN AND GIRLS' PROTECTION. [ 11 of 1890. ] 1287

( 2. ) The keeper of a brothel shall be the person primarily Responsibi.
responsible for registering such brothel, but if no such regis, lity of keeper..
tration has been made by him , the owner of such brothel shall
be also responsible for the registration , and in default of such
registration the owner ( if he knowingly allows the place to be
used as a brothel) and the keeper shall be liable on conviction
by a Magistrate to imprisonment with or without hard labour
for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding
two hundred and fifty dollars or to both. Provided that no
prosecution shall be commenced against the owner without the
fiat of the Attorney General.
( 3.) A brothel which is duly registered under this ordinance When brothel
shall not be deemed a public nuisance unless the same be so atobe deemed
public
conducted as to occasion an actual puisance but nothing herein nuisance.
contained shall deprive any person of any civil remedy which
he would otherwise be entitled to in respect of any such brothel.
( 4.) The Governor may from time to time by notification in Limits within
the Gazette prescribe certain limits within which all brothels which maybroth
be
shall be unlawful and no brothels shall be allowed to be registered [kept.
Ord . 19 of
within such limits .
1889, s. 2. ]
( 5. ) For the purposes of sub -sections 1 , 2 and 3 of this For certain
section and of section 33 the term brothel does not include aa purposes
brothel only
brothel which is used or occupied exclusively by women who •toAsiatic
include
'
are not Asiatic .
brothels.




PART IV.
GENERAL PROVISIONS.
22. The Governor may appoint such officers as may be power for
necessary for carrying out the provisions of this ordinance and appoint
Governorto
may make rules for the conduct of their duties. officers .
[ Ibid. s. 55. ]
23. ( 1. ) The Registrar General or any officer appointed Powers of
under this ordinance and specially authorised for that purpose Generai, &c.
in writing by the Registrar General shall have power without toto search
warrantto search any ship, boat, house, buildingor other place without
warrantships,
where he has reasonable cause to suspect that there is any houses, boats,
&c.
woman or girl who is or may be liable to le dealt with under [Ibid. s. 46. ]
the provisions of Part II of this ordinance and may remove
anysuch woman or girl to the Asylum to be there detained
until her case be enquired into.
( 2. ) The Registrar General or any officer appointed under this Power of
ordinance and" authorised for that purpose in writing by the General to