Miextern Ruaratta.
ANNO QUINQITAGESIMO QUINTO
VICTORIA,
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No. XXIV.
AN ACT to make better Provision for the Protection of Women and Girls, and for other Purposes.
[Assented to, /that March, 4g92.]
| Legislative Assembly of Western Australia, in this present Parlia- | BE it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and |
| ment assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:— |
with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council and Preambk.
| 1. | THIS Act may be cited as "The Criminal Law Amendment | Short title. |
Act of 1892."
PART I.—PROTECTION OF WOMEN AND GIRLS.
| 2. | ANY person who— | Procuration.. | |
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| ( I. | ) Procures or attempts to procure any girl or woman 9.a.< |
under twenty-one years of age, not being a commonender prostitute or of known immoral character, to have unlawful carnal connection, either within or without the Colony, with any other person or persons ; or
55° VICTORLE, No. 24.
Criminal Law—Amendment.
(2.) Procures or attempts to procure any woman or girl to
become, either within or without the Colony, a common
prostitute ; or
Procures or attempts to procure any woman or girl to leave the Colony, with intent that she may become an inmate of a brothel elsewhere ; or
| (4•) | Procures or attempts to procure any woman or girl to leave her usual place of abode in the Colony (such place not being a brothel), with intent that she may, for the purposes of prostitution, become an inmate of a brothel within or without the Colony ; |
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labor :
| No conviction on | Provided that no person shall be convicted of any offence |
| evidence of one | under this section upon the evidence of one witness only, unless such |
| uncorroborated | |
| witness. | witness be corroborated in some material particular by evidence implicating the accused. |
3. ANY person who-
Procuring defilement
| of woman by threats | By threats or intimidation procures or attempts to pro- (2.) By false pretences or false representations procures any woman or girl, not being a common prostitute or of known immoral character, to have any unlawful carnal connection, either within or without the Colony; or |
| or fraud, or |
| administering drugs. | cure any woman or girl to have any unlawful carnal |
| lb. s. 3. | connection, either within or without the Colony ; or |
Applies, administers to, or causes' to be taken by any woman or girl any drug, matter, or thing, with intent to stupefy or overpower her so as thereby to enable any person to have unlawful carnal connection with such woman or girl ;
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and being convicted thereof shall be liable, at the discretion of the Court, to be imprisoned for any term not exceeding two years, with or without hard labor :
Provided that no…