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Immoral Traffic (Scotland) Act 1902

As Enacted Cited in Amendments 3 Related
Vincent
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation1902 c. 11
Year1902


Immoral Traffic (Scotland) Act, 1902.

(2 Edw. 7.) CHAPTER 11.

An Act to make further provision for the Punishment of Persons trading in Prostitution in Scotland.

[22nd July 1902]

B E it enacted by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

S-1 Persons trading in prostitution.

1 Persons trading in prostitution.

(1) Every male person who—

(a ) knowingly lives wholly or in part on the earnings of prostitution; or

(b ) in any public place persistently solicits or importunes for immoral purposes,

shall be guilty of a crime and offence, and, being convicted thereof before a court of summary jurisdiction, shall be liable, at the discretion of the court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding three months with hard labour.

(2) If it is made to appear to a court of summary jurisdiction by information on oath that there is reason to suspect that any house or any part of a house is used by a female for purposes of prostitution, and that any male person residing in or frequenting the house is living wholly or in part on the earnings of the prostitute, the court may issue a warrant authorising any constable to enter and search the house and to arrest that male person.

(3) Where a male person is proved to live with or to be habitually in the company of a prostitute, and has no visible means of subsistence, he shall, unless he can satisfy the court to the contrary, be deemed to be knowingly living on the earnings of prostitution.

S-2 Extent and short title,

2 Extent and short title,

(1) This Act shall extend to Scotland only.

(2) This Act way, be cited as the Immoral Traffic (Scotland) Act, 1902.

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