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CRIMINAL LAW AMENDMENT ACT 1885 - SECT 12

Custody of girls under seventeen.

12. Where on the trial of any offence under this Act it is proved to the
satisfaction of the court that the seduction or prostitution of a girl under
the age of [seventeen years] has been caused, encouraged, or favoured by her
father, mother, guardian, master, or mistress, it shall be in the power of the
court to divest such father, mother, guardian, master, or mistress of all
authority over her, and to appoint any person or persons willing to take
charge of such girl to be her guardian until she has attained the age of
[eighteen], or any age below this as the court may direct, and the High Court
shall have the power from time to time to rescind or vary such order by the
appointment of any other person or persons as such guardian, or in any other
respect.

Summary proceedings against brothel keeper, &c.

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