Contagious disease. Brothel-keeper. Extent of Act. Punishment of unregistered prostitutes and brothel. keepers. Local Government to gistration and ap "Contagious disease" means any contagious veneral disease: "Brothel-keeper" means the occupier of any house, room, or place, to or in which women resort or are for the purpose of prostitution, and every person managing or assisting in the management of any such house, room or place. III. The places to which this Act applies shall be such places as the local Government shall from time to time, with the previous sanction of the Governor General of India in Council, specify by notification in the official gazette. The limits of such places shall, for the purposes of this Act, be such as are defined in the said notification, and may from time to time, with such sanction as aforesaid, be altered by a like notification. Unregistered Prostitutes and Brothel-keepers. IV. In any place to which this Act applies, no woman shall carry on the business of a common prostitute, and no person shall carry on the business of a brothel-keeper, without being registered under this Act at such place, and without having in her or his possession such evidence of registration as hereinafter provided. Any woman carrying on the business of a common prostitute, and any person carrying on the business of a brothelkeeper, without having been registered as aforesaid, or without having in her or his possession such evidence as aforesaid, shall, on conviction before a magistrate, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine not exceeding one hundred rupees, or with both. Registration of Prostitutes and Brothel-keepers. V. The local Government shall make rules for the registration of common prostitutes and of brothel-keepers, and shall appoint officers for the conduct of such registration, and may, with the previous sanction of the Governor General of India in Council, assign salaries and establishments to the said officers. The local Government shall also provide such books and forms as may be necessary for the purposes of this Act. Every woman complying with such rules (so far as they relate to prostitutes), and every brothel-keeper complying with such rules (so far as they relate to brothel-keepers), shall be deemed to be registered under this Act, and the registering officer shall furnish her or him with such evidence of registration as the local Government shall from time to time direct. The name, age, caste (if any), and residence of every such woman, and such other particulars respecting her as the local Government shall from time to time direct, shall be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose. The name and residence of every such brothel-keeper, and the situation of the house, room or place in which he carries on his business, shall be entered in a book to be kept for that purpose. VI. Whenever any such woman changes her residence, Change of residence. she shall give notice thereof to such person and in such manner as the local Government shall from time to time direct; and the necessary alterations shall be made in the said book aud in the evidence of registration furnished to her as aforesaid. Any such woman failing to give notice as aforesaid shall, on conviction before a magistrate, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen days, or with fine not exceeding fifty rupees, or with both. Whenever any brothel-keeper changes his residence or acquires or enters into the occupation of any such house, room, or place as last aforesaid, other than the house, room or place of which the situation has been registered as aforesaid, he shall give notice thereof to such person and in such manner as local Government shall from time to time direct, and the necessary alterations or additions shall be made in or to the said book and in the evidence of registration furnished to him as aforesaid. Any such brothel-keeper failing to give notice as last aforesaid shall, on conviction before a magistrate, be punish Penalty for refusing to show evidence of registration. Penalty for permitting unregistered prostitutes to resort to brothels. Proviso. Brothel keepers legally bound to furnish information. ed with imprisonment for a terin which may extend to one month, or with fine not exceeding one hundred rupees, or with both. Refusal to show Evidence of Registration. VII. Any registered woman or brothel-keeper who, without reasonable excuse, neglects or refuses to produce and show the evidence of her or his registration with which she or he shall have been furnished as aforesaid, when required so to do by such officer as the local Government shall from time to time appoint in this behalf, shall, on conviction before a magistrate, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to fourteen days, or with fine not exceeding fifty rupees, or with both. Information of the class of officers for the time being authorized to make requisitions under this section shall be furnished to registered women and brothel-keepers under such rules as the local Government shall from time to time prescribe. Special Provisions relating to Brothels. VIII. If any brothel-keeper, whether registered as such under this Act or not, has reasonable cause to believe any woman to be a prostitute and not to be registered under this Act, and induces or suffers her to resort or be, for the purpose of prostitution, to or in the house, room or place in which he carries on his said business, he shall, on conviction before a magistrate, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months, or with fine which may extend to one thousand rupees, or with both. Provided that nothing in this or any other section of this Act shall exempt the offender from any penal or other consequences to which he may be liable for keeping or being concerned in keeping a brothel or disorderly house or for the nuisance thereby occasioned. IX. Every such brothel-keeper shall be legally bound to furnish information on any subject relating to his business to such officers, and in such manner and at such times as the local Government shall from time to time prescribe in this behalf. Every such officer shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed to be a public servant. Examination of Prostitutes. stitutes. X. The local Government shall have power to appoint Examination of propersons to make periodical examinations of registered women, in order to ascertain whether at the time of each such examination they are affected with contagious disease. Government may make rules as to examinations. XI. For each of the places to which this Act applies, Local the local Government may make rules consistent with this Act respecting the time and places of examination under this Act at that place, and generally respecting the arrangements for the conduct of those examinations, and for recording the results thereof; and a copy of rules purporting to be rules under this section shall, if signed by a secretary to to such Government, be evidence of such rules for the purposes of this Act. The local Government may also require the persons Reports. making such examination to send in reports to such persons, at such times and in such form as the local Government shall from time to time prescribe. Any person not a medical officer, appointed to make such Penalty for disobey examination, and any registered woman disobeying any ing rules. rule made under this section, shall, on conviction before a magistrate, be punished with simple imprisonment for a term which may extend to one month, or with fine not exceeding one hundred rupees, or with both. Certified Hospitals. XII. The local Government may from time to time Local provide any buildings or parts of buildings as hospitals for the purposes of this Act. Any building or part of a building so provided and eertified in writing by a secretary to the local Government to be so provided, shall be deemed a certified hospital under this Act. Government may provide and certify hospitals. pitals. Every certified hospital so provided shall be placed under Control of such hosthe control and management of such persons as to the local Government shall from time to time seem fit. Regulations for management of hospitals. Registered prostitutes on receiving notice, to go to hos pital. Penalty for neglect or refusal. Detention of prostitutes under medi. cal treatment. Penalty for leaving hospital before discharge.. Penalty for disobeying regulations of hospital. XIII. The local Government shall make regulations for the inspection, management, and government of the hospitals as far as regards women authorized by this Act to be detained therein for medical treatment, or being therein under medical treatment for a contagious disease. A copy of regulations purporting to be regulations made under this section, shall, if signed by a secretary to such Government, be evidence of such regulations for the purposes of this Act. XIV. Any woman registered under this Act shall, on receiving notice from any such officer as the local Government shall from time to time appoint in this behalf, proceed to the certified hospital named in such notice, and place herself there for medical treatment. If after the notice is delivered to her, she neglects or refuses to proceed to the said hospital within the time specified in the said notice, an officer of police shall apprehend her, and convey her with all practicable speed to such hospital, and place her there for medical treatment. XV. Whenever any such woman affected with contagious disease, places herself or is placed as aforesaid in a certified hospital for medical treatment, she shall be detained there for that purpose by such medical officer of the hospital as the local Government shall from time to time appoint in this behalf, until discharged by him by writing under his hand. Medical treatment, lodging, clothing, and food shall be provided gratis for every such woman during her detention in the hospital. XVI. If any woman authorized by such medical officer to be detained in a certified hospital for medical treatment, quits the hospital without being discharged therefrom by the chief medical officer thereof, by writing under his hand (the proof whereof shall lie on the accused), or if any woman authorized by this Act to be detained in a certified hospital for medical treatment, or any woman being in a certified hospital under medical treatment for a contagious disease, refuses, or wilfully neglects while in the |