AN ACT TO REPEAL THE PENAL CODE AND MAKE COMPREHENSIVE PROVISION IN RELATION TO THE ELEMENTS OF CRIMINAL RESPONSIBILITY AND TO PRESCRIBE A RANGE OF CRIMINAL OFFENCES, AND FOR RELATED PURPOSES
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[CR 217]\u2003Procuration for unlawful purposes
(1)\u2003A person commits a summary offence if he or she\u2014
(a)procures or attempts to procure any person under the age of 21 years, not being a common prostitute or of known immoral character, to have unlawful connection, either in Fiji or elsewhere, with any other person or persons; or
(b)procures or attempts to procure any person to become, either in Fiji or elsewhere, a common prostitute; or
(c)procures or attempts to procure any person to leave Fiji, with intent that he or she may become an inmate of or frequent a brothel elsewhere; or
(d)procures or attempts to procure any person to leave his or her usual place of abode in Fiji (such place not being a brothel), with intent that he or she may for the purposes of prostitution become an inmate of or frequent a brothel either in Fiji or elsewhere.
Penalty \u2014 Imprisonment for 2 years.
(2)\u2003It is no defence to any charge under subsection (1) to show that the person procured was procured with their consent.