Crimes Ordinance
Part XII
12-46
Section 143
Cap. 200
in the management or control of any premises or vessel, who
induces or knowingly suffers—
(a) a woman who is a mentally incapacitated person to
resort to or be on such premises or vessel for the
purpose of having unlawful sexual intercourse with a
man or for the purpose of prostitution; or
(b) a man who is a mentally incapacitated person to resort
to or be on such premises or vessel for the purpose
of committing buggery with a man or an act of gross
indecency with a man,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction
on indictment to imprisonment for 10 years.
(2) A person who induces or knowingly suffers another to resort
to or be on any premises or vessel is not guilty of an offence
under this section if that person does not know and has no
reason to suspect the other to be a mentally incapacitated
person.
(Replaced 90 of 1991 s. 19. Amended 81 of 1997 s. 59)
143.
Letting premises for use as a vice establishment
(1) A person who, being the owner or tenant of any premises or
his agent— (Amended 69 of 1990 s. 3)
(a) lets the whole or part of the premises with the
knowledge that it is to be kept, in whole or in part, as a
vice establishment; or
(b) where the whole or part of the premises is used as a vice
establishment, is wilfully a party to that use continuing,
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction
on indictment to imprisonment for 7 years.
(2) Where—
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