Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956
Bare Act · 1956
An Act to provide in pursuance of the International Convention signed at New York on the 9th day of May, 1950, for 2 [the Prevention of Immoral Traffic].
In the syllabus of: Andhra Pradesh APO · Gujarat Civil Judge · Odisha APO · Tamil Nadu APO · Telangana APO · Telangana Civil Judge
- Act number
- 104 of 1956
- Enacted
- 30 December 1956
- Contents
- 32 sections
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Contents
- Section 1 – Short title, extent and commencement
- Section 2 – Definitions
- Section 2A – [Omitted]
- Section 3 – Punishment for keeping a brothel or allowing premises to be used as a brothel
- Section 4 – Punishment for living on the earnings of prostitution
- Section 5 – Procuring, inducing or taking person for the sake of prostitution (preview)
- Section 6 – Detaining a person in premises where prostitution is carried on (preview)
- Section 7 – Prostitution in or in the vicinity of public places (preview)
- Section 8 – Seducing or soliciting for purpose of prostitution (preview)
- Section 9 – Seduction of a person in custody (preview)
- Section 10 – Omitted (preview)
- Section 10A – Detention in a corrective institution (preview)
- Section 11 – Notification of address of previously convicted offenders (preview)
- Section 12 – Omitted (preview)
- Section 13 – Special police officer and advisory body (preview)
- Section 14 – Offences to be cognizable (preview)
- Section 15 – Search without warrant (preview)
- Section 16 – Rescue of person (preview)
- Section 17 – Intermediate custody of persons removed under section 15 or rescued under section 16 (preview)
- Section 17A – Conditions to be observed before placing persons rescued under section 16 to parents or guardians (preview)
- Section 18 – Closure of brothel and eviction of offenders from the premises (preview)
- Section 19 – Application for being kept in a protective home or provided care and protection by court (preview)
- Section 20 – Removal of prostitute from any place (preview)
- Section 21 – Protective homes (preview)
- Section 21A – Production of records (preview)
- Section 22 – Trials (preview)
- Section 22A – Power to establish special courts (preview)
- Section 22AA – Power of Central Government to establish special courts (preview)
- Section 22B – Power of Court to try cases summarily (preview)
- Section 23 – Power to make rules (preview)
- Section 24 – Act not to be in derogation of certain other Acts (preview)
- Section 25 – Repeal and savings (preview)