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VAGRANCY ACT 1898 - SECT 1

1.(1) Every male person who

(a)knowingly lives wholly or in part on the earnings of prostitution; or

(b)in any public place persistently solicits or importunes for immoral
purposes,

(2) If it is made to appear to a court of summary jurisdiction by information
on oath that there is reason to suspect that any house or any part of a house
is used by a female for purposes of prostitution, and that any male person
residing in or frequenting the house is living wholly or in part on the
earnings of the prostitute, the court may issue a warrant authorising any
constable to enter and search the house and to arrest that male person.

(3) Where a male person is proved to live with or to be habitually in the
company of a prostitute [or is proved to have exercised control, direction, or
influence over the movements of a prostitute in such a manner as to show that
he is aiding, abetting, or compelling her prostitution with any other person
or generally], he shall, unless he can satisfy the court to the contrary, be
deemed to be knowingly living on the earnings of prostitution.

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