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Common nuisance
(1) Any person who does an act not authorized by law or omits to discharge a legal duty and thereby causes any common injury, or d…
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Child stealing
(1) Any person who, with intent to deprive any parent, guardian or other person who has the lawful care or charge of a child under…
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Master not providing for servants or apprentices
Any person who being legally liable, either as master or mistress, to provide for any apprentice or servant necessary food, clothi…
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Marriage with dishonest or fraudulent intent
Any person who dishonestly or with a fraudulent intention goes through the ceremony of marriage, knowing that he is not thereby la…
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Bigamy
Any person who, having a husband or wife living, goes through a ceremony of marriage which is void by reason of its taking place d…
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Indecent practices between males
Any male person who, whether in public or private, commits any act of gross indecency with another male person, or procures anothe…
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Attempt to commit unnatural offences
Any person who attempts to commit any of the offences specified in section 162 is guilty of a felony and is liable to imprisonment…
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Unnatural offences.
Any person who— (a) has carnal knowledge of any person against the order of nature; or (b) has carnal knowledge of an animal; or (…
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Supplying drugs or instruments to procure abortion
Any person who unlawfully supplies to or procures for any person any thing whatever, knowing that it is intended to be unlawfully…
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The like by woman with child
Any woman who, being with child, with intent to procure her own miscarriage, unlawfully administers to herself any poison or other…
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Attempts to procure abortion
Any person who, with intent to procure miscarriage of a woman, whether she is or is not with child, unlawfully administers to her…
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Conspiracy to defile
(1) Any person who conspires with another to induce any woman or girl, by means of any false pretence or other fraudulent means, t…
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Brothels
Any person who— (a) keeps or manages or assists in the management of a brothel; or (b) being the tenant, lessee or occupier, or pe…
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Premises used for prostitution
If it is made to appear to a magistrate by information on oath that there is reason to suspect that any house or any part of a hou…
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Woman living on earnings of prostitution or aiding, etc., prostitution
Every woman who knowingly lives wholly or in part on the earnings of prostitution, or who is proved to have, for the purpose of ga…
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Male person living on earnings of prostitution or soliciting
(1) Every male person who— (a) knowingly lives wholly or in part on the earnings of prostitution; or (b) in any public place persi…
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Power of search for persons detained
(1) If it appears to any magistrate, on information laid before him on oath by— (a) any parent, relative or guardian of a person n…
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Detention of females for immoral purposes
(1) Any person who detains any other person against his or her will— (a) in or upon any premises with intent that he or she may ha…
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Defilement of idiots or imbeciles
Any person who, knowing a person to be an idiot or imbecile, has or attempts to have unlawful carnal connection with him or her un…
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Writing or uttering words with intent to wound religious feelings
Any person who, with the deliberate intention of wounding the religious feelings of any other person, writes any word, or any pers…
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Hindering burial of dead body, etc.
Whoever unlawfully hinders the burial of the dead body of any person, or without lawful authority in that behalf disinters, dissec…
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Trespassing on burial places
Every person who, with the intention of wounding the feelings of any person or of insulting the religion of any person, or with th…
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Disturbing religious assemblies
Any person who voluntarily causes disturbance to any assembly lawfully engaged in the performance of religious worship or religiou…
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Insult to religion
Any person who destroys, damages or defiles any place of worship or any object which is held sacred by any class of persons with t…
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