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Section 15 of Sexual Offences Act: Child prostitution

    

Any person who—
(a) knowingly permits any child to remain in any premises, for the purposes of causing such child to be sexually abused or to participate in any form of sexual activity or in any obscene or indecent exhibition or show;
(b) acts as a procurer of a child for the purposes of sexual intercourse or for any form of sexual abuse or indecent exhibition or show;
(c) induces a person to be a client of a child for sexual intercourse or for
any form of sexual abuse or indecent exhibition or show, by means of print or other media, oral advertisements or other similar means;
(d) takes advantage of his influence over, or his relationship to a child,
to procure the child for sexual intercourse or any form of sexual abuse or indecent exhibition or show;
(e) threatens or uses violence towards a child to procure the child for
sexual intercourse or any form of sexual abuse or indecent exhibition or show;
(f) intentionally or knowingly owns, leases, rents, manages, occupies or has control of any movable or immovable property used for purposes of the commission of any offence under this Act with a child by any person;
(g) gives monetary consideration, goods, other benefits or any other form of inducement to a child or his parents with intent to procure the child for sexual intercourse or any form of sexual abuse or indecent exhibition or show, commits the offence of benefiting from child prostitution and is liable upon conviction to imprisonment for a term of not less than ten years.

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