The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act,1956 (Bare Act)/ Universal Law Publishing - New Delhi: Universal Law Publishing, 2010. - 27 p.

THE IMMORAL TRAFFIC (PREVENTION)
ACT, 1956

1. Short title, extent and commencement . - , . 3
2. Definitions . .. . 3
2A. Rule of construction regarding enactments not extending to • Jammu and Kashmir . • . 5
3. Punishment for keeping a brothel or allowing premises to be used as a brothel . . "5
4. Punishment for living on the earnings of prostitution . . . ^ 6 5. Procuring, inducing or taking person for the sake of prostitution . '.i' •<' 7 6. Detaining a person in premises where prostitution is carried on . . , ^ 8
7. Prostitution in or in the vicinity of public places . . . 8 8. Seducing or soliciting for purpose of prostitution . . . 10 9. Seduction of a person in custody . • ,r
10. [Repealed] • . . . 11
lOA. Detention in a corrective institution . .. . 11 ► k. 11. Notification of address of previously convicted offenders . . . 12 12. [Repealed] . • ^3 13. Special police officer and advisory body . . . 13 14. Offences to be cognizable . . . 14 15. Search without warrant . .' . 14' 16. Rescue of person . . . 16 17. Intermediate custody of persons removed under section 15 or rescued under section 16 . . '. 16 17A. Conditions to be observed before placing persons rescued under section 16 to parents or guardians . • . ' ■ 18 18. Closure of brothel and eviction of offenders from the premises . 18 19. Application for being kept in a protective home or provided care and protection by court . , 19 20. Removal of prostitute from any place .. i' ' 20 21. Protective homes • >•/ • 21 21A. Production of records . 'J . 23 22. Trials . . 23 22A. Power to establish special courts - 23 22AA. Power of Central Goverrunent to establish special courts 23 22B. Power of court to try cases summarily . ^ . 23 23. Power to make rules » * . 24 24. Act not to be in derogation of certain other Acts . • • . 26 25. Repeal and savings . . > 26 THE SCHEDULE.—(Magistrates competent to exercise poxvers confirmed . by the section—See section 2(c)J} . . . 26


Immoral Traffic--Bare Act

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