Name: Immorality Act, 1957
Author: Portal:Acts of the Parliament of South Africa

Quotes from Immorality Act, 1957 (Portal:Acts of the Parliament of South Africa)

Portal:Acts of the Parliament of South Africa, Immorality Act, 1957 (1957)

“ If it is made to appear to a magistrate by information on oath that there is reason to suspect that any house is used by a female for purposes of prostitution and that any person residing in or frequenting the house is living wholly or in part on the earnings of the prostitute, the magistrate may issue a warrant authorizing any police officer not below the rank of sergeant to enter and search the house and to arrest that person. ”

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Portal:Acts of the Parliament of South Africa, Immorality Act, 1957 (1957)

“ Whenever in any prosecution under this Act a person is proved to reside in a brothel or to live with or to be habitually in the company of a prostitute and has no visible means of subsistence, such person shall, unless he or she satisfies the court to the contrary, be deemed to he knowingly living wholly or in part on the earnings of prostitution. ”

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Portal:Acts of the Parliament of South Africa, Immorality Act, 1957 (1957)

“ Any person who takes or detains or causes to be taken or detained any unmarried male or female under the age of twenty-one years out of the custody and against the will of his or her father or mother or guardian, with intent that such person or any other person, whether a particular person or not, may have unlawful carnal intercourse with such unmarried male or female, shall be guilty of an offence. ”

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Portal:Acts of the Parliament of South Africa, Immorality Act, 1957 (1957)

“ Any person shall be deemed to detain a female in or upon any house or place or in a brothel if, with intent to compel or induce her to remain in or upon such house or place or in such brothel, such person withholds from her any wearing apparel or other property to the possession of which she is entitled or which has been lent or supplied to her by such person or for the purposes of prostitution ”

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Portal:Acts of the Parliament of South Africa, Immorality Act, 1957 (1957)

“ Acts committed between men at a party and which are calculated to stimulate sexual passion or to give sexual gratification, prohibited. 20A. (1) A male person who commits with another male person at a party an act which is calculated to stimulate sexual passion or to give sexual gratification, shall be guilty of an offence. ”

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Portal:Acts of the Parliament of South Africa, Immorality Act, 1957 (1957)

“ It shall be a sufficient defence to any charge under this section if it is proved to the satisfaction of the court that the person charged at the time of the commission of the offence had reasonable cause to believe that the person with whom he or she committed the offence was a white person if the person charged is a white person, or a coloured person if the person charged is a coloured person. ”

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Portal:Acts of the Parliament of South Africa, Immorality Act, 1957 (1957)

“ For the purposes of subsection (1) “a party” means any occasion where more than two persons are present.
(3) The provisions of subsection (1) do not derogate from the common law, any other provision of this Act or a provision of any other law. ”

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