PART II.

SUPPRESSION OF BROTHELS.

Section 13.-Any person who

Summary

(1.) Keeps or manages or acts or assists in the management of proceedings a brothel, or

against brothel

(2.) Being the tenant, lessee, or occupier of any premises, keeper, &c.

knowingly perinits such premises or any part thereof to

be used as a brothel or for the purposes of habitual
prostitution, or

(3.) Being the lessor or landlord of any premises, or the agent
of such lessor or landlord, lets the same or any part
thereof with the knowledge that such premises or some
part thereof are or is to be used as a brothel, or is wil-
fully a party to the continued use of such premises or
any part thereof as a brothel,

shall on summary conviction in manner provided by the Sum mary Jurisdiction Acts be liable

(1.) To a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds, or, in the discretion of the court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour, and

(2.) On a second or subsequent conviction to a penalty not exceeding forty pounds, or, in the discretion of the court, to imprisonment for any term not exceeding four months, with or without hard labour;

and in case of a third or subsequent conviction such person may, in addition to such penalty or imprisonment as last aforesaid, be required by the court to enter into a recognizance, with or without sureties, as to the court seems meet, to be of good behaviour for any period not exceeding twelve months, and in default of entering into such recognizance, with or without sureties (as the case may be), such person may be imprisoned for any period not exceeding three months, in addition to any such term of imprisonment as aforesaid.

Any person on being summarily convicted in pursuance of this section may appeal to a court of general or quarter sessions against such conviction.

The enactments for encouraging prosecutions of disorderly houses contained in sections five, six, and seven of the Act passed in the twenty-fifth year of the reign of King George the Second, chapter thirty-six, as amended by the enactment contained in section seven of the Act passed in the fifty-eighth year of the reign of King George the Third, chapter seventy, shall, with the

necessary modifications, be deemed to apply to prosecutions under this section, and the said enactments shall, for the purposes of this section, be construed as if the prosecution in such enactments mentioned included summary proceedings under this section as well as a prosecution on indictment.

Definitions.

42 & 43 Vict. C. 49.

14 & 15 Vict. C. 93.

Application of Act to Scotland.

27 & 28 Vict. c. 53.

24 & 45 Vict. c. 33.

Saving of Hability to other criminal

PART III.

DEFINITIONS AND MISCELLANEOUS.

Section 14. In this Act

The expression "The Summary Jurisdiction Acts"

(a.) As regards England means the Summary Jurisdiction (English) Acts within the meaning of the Summary Jurisdiction Act, 1879, and

(b.) As regards Ireland means within the police district of Dublin metropolis the Acts regulating the powers and duties of justices of the peace of such district or of the police of such district, and elsewhere in Ireland the Petty Sessions (Ireland) Act, 1851, and the Acts amending the same.

Section 15.-In the application of this Act to Scotland-
The expression "misdemeanor" shall mean a crime and
offence.

The expression "felony" shall mean a high crime and offence. The expression a justice of the peace," and the expression "two justices," shall include sheriff and sheriff substitute. The expression "The Summary Jurisdiction Acts" shall mean the Summary Jurisdiction (Scotland) Acts, 1864 and 1881, and any Acts amending the same.

The expression "enter into a recognizance with or without sureties" shall mean "grant a bond of caution."

The expression "High Court or Court of General or Quarter Sessions" shall mean the High Court or a circuit court of justiciary.

Section 16.-This Act shall not exempt any person from any proceeding for an offence which is punishable at common law, or under any Act of Parliament other than this Act, so that a person proceedings. be not punished twice for the same offence.

Procedure

on indict

Act.

Section 17.-Every misdemeanor under this Act shall, in ment under England and Ireland, be deemed to be an offence within, and subject to, the provisions of the Act of the session of the twenty-second and twenty-third years of the reign of Her present Majesty, chapter seventeen, intituled " An Act to prevent vexatious indictments for certain misdemeanors," and any Act

amending the same, and no indictment under the provisions of this Act shall in England be tried by any court of quarter sessions.

Section 18.-The court before which any misdemeanor indict- Costs. able under this Act, or any case of indecent assault, shall be prosecuted or tried may allow the costs of the prosecution, in the same manner as in cases of felony, and may in like manner, on conviction, order payment of such costs by the person convicted; and every order for the allowance or payment of such costs shall be made out, and the sum of money mentioned therein paid and repaid upon the same terms and in the same manner in all respects as in cases of felony.

in schedule.

Section 19.-The Acts mentioned in the Schedule to this Act Repeal of are hereby repealed to the extent mentioned in the third column enactments of the said schedule, except as to anything heretofore duly done thereunder, and except so far as may be necessary for the purpose of supporting and continuing any proceeding taken or of prosecuting or punishing any person for any offence committed before the passing of this Act.

his wife to

Section 20.-Every person charged with an offence under this Person Act or under section forty-eight and sections fifty-two to fifty- charged and five, both inclusive, of the Act of the session of the twenty- be compefourth and twenty-fifth years of the reign of Her present tent witMajesty, chapter one hundred, or any of such sections, and the nesses. husband or wife of the person so charged, shall be competent but not compellable witnesses on every hearing at every stage of such charge, except an inquiry before a grand jury.

SCHEDULE.

Session and Chapter.

Title or Short Title.

Extent of Repeal.

24 & 25 Vict. c. 100 An Act to consolidate Section forty-nine,

and in section
fifty-two the
words "or any
attempt to have
carnal know-
ledge of any girl
under twelve
years of age."

The whole Act.