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Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act
An Act to provide in pursuance of the International Convention signed at New York on the 9th day of May, 1950, for the Prevention of Immoral Traffic.
| Act Id | 1956104 |
| Act Number | 104 |
| Enactment Date | 1956-12-30 |
| Act Year | 1956 |
| Ministry | Ministry of Women and Child Development |
| Enforcement Date | 01-05-1958 |
- All sections
- 1 Short title, extent and commencement
- 2 Definitions
- 2A Rule of construction regarding enactment not extending to Jammu and Kashmir
- 3 Punishment for keeping a brothel or allowing premises to be used as a brothel
- 4 Punishment for living on the earnings of prostitution
- 5 Procuring, inducing or taking person for the sake of prostitution
- 6 Detaining a person in premises where prostitution is carried on
- 7 Prostitution in or in the vicinity of public places
- 8 Seducing or soliciting for purpose of prostitution
- 9 Seduction of a person in custody
- 10 [Omitted.]
- 10A Detention in a corrective institution
- 11 Notification of address of previously convicted offenders
- 12 [Omitted.]
- 13 Special police officer and advisory body
- 14 Offences to be cognizable
- 15 Search without warrant
- 16 Rescue of person
- 17 Intermediate custody of persons removed under section 15 or rescued under section 16
- 17A Conditions to be observed before placing persons rescued under section 16 to parents or guardians
- 18 Closure of brothel and eviction of offenders from the premises
- 19 Application for being kept in a protective home or provided care and protection by court
- 20 Removal of prostitute from any place
- 21 Protective homes
- 21A Production of records
- 22 Trials
- 22A Power to establish special courts
- 22AA Power of Central Government to establish special courts
- 22B Power of Court to try cases summarily
- 23 Power to make rules
- 24 Act not to be in derogation of certain other Acts
- 25 Repeal and savings
