Crimes Ordinance
Part XII
12-32
Section 135
Cap. 200
(a) with the intention that the other person shall do an
unlawful sexual act; or (Replaced 90 of 1991 s. 12)
(b) on any premises or vessel, or in any place, kept as a
vice establishment,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction
on indictment to imprisonment for 14 years.
(2) Where a person is on any premises or vessel for the purpose
of doing an unlawful sexual act or is on any premises or
vessel, or in any place, kept as a vice establishment, another
person shall be deemed for the purposes of subsection (1) to
detain that person there if, with the intention of compelling or
inducing that person to remain there, the other person—
(a) withholds from that person any of that person’s clothes
or other property; or
(b) threatens that person with legal proceedings in the
event of that person taking away clothes provided for
that person by the other person or on the other person’s
directions. (Replaced 90 of 1991 s. 12)
(3) A person shall not be liable to any legal proceedings, whether
civil or criminal, for taking away or being found in possession
of any clothes she or he needed to enable her or him to leave
premises or a vessel on which she or he was being detained
for the purpose of doing an unlawful sexual act or to leave
any premises, vessel or place kept as a vice establishment.
(Added 1 of 1978 s. 6. Amended 90 of 1991 s. 12)
[cf. 1956 c. 69 s. 24 U.K.]
135.
Causing or encouraging prostitution of, intercourse with, or
indecent assault on, girl or boy under 16
(1) A person who causes or encourages the prostitution of or
an unlawful sexual act with a girl or boy under the age of
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