Clause 20

Subject to the provisions of subsection (2) of this section, any person who is the owner or occupier of any premises or who has, or acts or assists in, the management or control of any premises, induces or knowingly suffers a woman who is a mental defective to resort to or be on those premises for the purpose of having sexual intercourse, except by way of marriage, with any male person shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars or to both such imprisonment and fine.(2) A person shall not be guilty of an offence under this section because he induces or knowingly suffers a mental defective to resort to or be on any premises for the purpose mentioned, if he does not know and has no reason to suspect her to be a mental defective.Causing or encouraging prostitution of, intercourse with, or indecent assault on, girl under the age of sixteen130C.—

Any person who causes or encourages the prostitution of, or the commission of unlawful sexual intercourse with, or of an indecent assault on, a girl under the age of sixteen years for whom he is responsible shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three years or to a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars or to both such imprisonment and fine.(2) Where a girl has become a prostitute, or has had unlawful sexual intercourse, or has been indecently assaulted, a person shall be deemed for the purposes of this section to have caused or encouraged it, if he knowingly allowed her to consort with or to enter or continue in the employment of, any prostitute or person of known immoral character.(3) The persons who are to be treated for the purposes of this section as responsible for a girl are (subject to subsection (4) of this section) —

any person who is her parent or legal guardian;

any person who has actual possession or control of her, or to whose charge she has been committed by her parent or legal guardian or by a person having the custody of her; and

any other person who has the custody, charge or care of her.(4) In subsection (3) of this section —

“legal guardian” means, in relation to any girl, any person who is for the time being her guardian, having been appointed according to law by deed or will or by order of a court of competent jurisdiction;

“parent” does not include, in relation to any girl, a person deprived of the custody of her by order of a court of competent jurisdiction but (subject to that), in the case of a girl who has been adopted under the Adoption of Children Act (Cap. 43), or any enactment thereby repealed, means her adopters and, in the case of a girl who is illegitimate (and has not been so adopted), means her mother and any person who has been adjudged to be her putative father.(5) If, on a charge of an offence against a girl under this section, the girl appears to the court to have been under the age of sixteen years at the time of the offence charged, she shall be presumed for the purposes of this section to have been so, unless the contrary is proved.”.