ACT No. XIII 0( 1989 AN A CT IQ amend Ihe While Sla~e Traffic (Suppression) Ordi/Ulnu Cop. 63.

CENsuT ... aoNE

( I...S.)

28th April. 1989

ACT No. XIII 0( 1989

AN A CT IQ amend Ihe While Sla~e Traffic (Suppression) Ordi/Ulnu

Cop. 63.

BE IT ENACl'ED by the President. by and with the advice and

consent of the House of Representatives. in this present Parl iame nt as·

se mbled . and by the authority o f the same. as follows: -

This Act may be cited as th e White Slave Traffic (Suppression)

(Amendme nt) Act. 1989. and shall be read and construed as one with

the Whit e Slave Traffic (Suppression) Ordi nance , hereinafte r referred

to as Mthe principal Act".

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Section 7 of the principal law shall be amended as follows

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(a) immediately afte r subseetion ( I) the reof the re shall be pri<lcipal1a ....

added the fo llowing proviso

" Provided that where that other person hll$ not attained

the age of eightee n years" the offence shall be punishable with

imprisonment for a tenn from eighteen mont hs 10 four

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years.

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( b) for subsection (2) the reo! the re shall be substilUted the

following subsect ion

M(2) Any person who in an~ slreet oTother public place or

in any place exposed \0 the public loiters or solicits (or the pur·

A"'.

pose o f prostitution or for othe r immoral purposes, shall be li-

able, on conviction, to irnpri50nmcnt for a term of not more

,han three months.~ .

Passed bylbe House of Representatives at Sitling No. 228 of the 24th April , 1989.

LAWRENCE GONZ t

SfHulur

P . M USCAT TEk'UQ ILE

Clerk to I~ HoU$c 0/ ReprtseTllut;ves.

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