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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 21

Causing or encouraging seduction or prostitution of girl under seventeen.

21.(1) If any person having the custody, charge or care of a girl under the
age of seventeen causes or encourages the commission of unlawful sexual
intercourse with, or the prostitution of, or the commission of an indecent
assault upon, her, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable

(a)on conviction on indictment to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two
years;

(b)on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to
imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both.

(2) For the purposes of this section a person shall be deemed to have caused
or encouraged the commission of unlawful sexual intercourse with, or of an
indecent assault upon, or the prostitution of, a girl who has had unlawful
sexual intercourse, or has been indecently assaulted, or who has become a
prostitute, if he has knowingly allowed her to consort with, or to enter or
continue in the employment of, any prostitute or person of known immoral
character.

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