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Penal Code (Amendment) Act (No. 22 of 1995) - Sect 8

Insertion of new section 360 and 360c of the principal enactment

8. The following new sections are hereby inserted immediately after section 860A AND shall have effect as section 360B and 360c of the principal enactment :-
360B. (1) Whoever:-
(a) knowingly permits any child to remain in any premises, for the purposes of causing such child to be sexually abused or to participate in any form or sexual activity or in any obscene or indecent exhibition or show;
(b) acts as a procurer of a child for the purposes of sexual intercourse or for any form of sexual abuse;
(c) induces a person to be a client of & child for sexual Intercourse or for any form of sexual abuse, by means of print or other media, oral advertisements or other similar means;
(d) takes advantage, of his Influence over, or his relationship to, a child, to procure such child for sexual intercourse or any form of sexual abuse;
(e) threatens, or uses violence towards, a child to procure such child for sexual intercourse or any form of sexual abuse;
(f) gives monetary consideration, goods or other benefits to a child or his parents with intent to procure such child for sexual intercourse or any form of sexual abuse,
(2) In this section " child " means under eighteen years of age.
360c.
(1) Whoever :-
(a) engages in the act of buying or selling or bartering of any person for money or for any other consideration ;
(b) for the purpose of promoting, facilitating or inducing the buying or selling or bartering or the placement in adoption, of any person for money or for any other consideration
(2) In this section " child " means a person under eighteen years of age.


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