Section 19: Application for being kept in a protective home or provided care and protection by court.

The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956Central Act · Act 104 of 1956

[19. Application for being kept in a protective home or provided care and protection by court.--(1) A [person] who is carrying on, or is being made to carry on, prostitution, may make an application, to the magistrate within the local limits of whose jurisdiction he is carrying on, or is being made to carry on prostitution, for an order that he may be--

(a) kept in a protective home, or

(b) provided care and protection by the court in the manner specified in sub-section (3).

(2) The magistrate may, pending inquiry under sub-section (3), direct that the [person] be kept in such custody as he may consider proper, having regard to the circumstances of the case.

(3) If the magistrate, after hearing the applicant and making such inquiry as he may consider necessary, including an inquiry by a probation officer appointed under the Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 (20 of 1958), into the personality, conditions of home and prospects of rehabilitation of the applicant, is satisfied that an order should be made under this section, he shall, for reasons to be recorded, make an order that the applicant be kept,--

(i) in a protective home, or

(ii) in a corrective institution, or

(iii) under the supervision of a person appointed by the magistrate,

for such period as may be specified in the order.]

Where this provision sits

Act	The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956
Section	19
Marginal note	Application for being kept in a protective home or provided care and protection by court.
Jurisdiction	Central
Status	In force as published by the source

How this provision has been amended

Taken from the footnotes printed with the provision by the source. Where a footnote names the amending instrument, it is quoted as printed.

substituted, Act 46 of 1978. . Subs. by Act 46 of 1978, s. 14, for section 19 (w.e.f. 2-10-1979).
substituted, Act 44 of 1986. . Subs. by Act 44 of 1986, s. 4, for "woman or girl" (w.e.f. 26-1-1987).

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