Cap. 63 Art. 3Inducing a person under the age of twenty-one years to leave Malta for purposes of prostitution.

(1) Whoever, in order to gratify the lust of any other person, induces a person under the age of twenty-one years to leave

Malta or to come to Maltafor purposes of prostitution elsewhere, or encourages or facilitates his departure from Malta or arrival in Malta for the same purpose, shall be liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a term from two to five years, with or without solitary confinement:

Provided that the punishment shall be imprisonment for a term from three to ten years, with or without solitary confinement, if the offence is committed -

*See Proclamation No. XVII of the 1st August, 1930.

(c) by an ascendant by consanguinity or affinity, by the adoptive father or mother, by the husband or wife or tutor, or by any other person charged, even though temporarily, with the care, education, instruction, control or custody of the person under the age of twenty-one years; or

(d) habitually or for gain.

(2) A conviction under this article shall entail the forfeiture of every authority and right granted to the offender over the person or property of the person to whose prejudice the offence shall have been committed, and, in the case of the tutor, his removal from the tutorship and his perpetual disability from holding the office of tutor.