Cap. 63 Art. 5Detention, etc., of apersonagainsthis will in a brothel, etc.

(1) Whoever detains, or is wilfully a party to the detention of a person, against his will, in any brothel, or in or upon any premises used for purposes of habitual prostitution, even if such person may have resorted to such place of his own free will, and may have remained there to practice prostitution, and notwithstanding any obligation or debt which such person may have contracted with any person whomsoever, shall be liable, on conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years, unless a higher punishment is applicable under any other provision of the Criminal Code or of any other law.

(2) A person shall be deemed to detain another person, for the purposes of this article, if, with intent to compel such other person to remain in a brothel or in or upon any premises used for purposes of habitual prostitution, he withholds from such other person any wearing apparel or other property belonging to the latter, or, where wearing apparel has been lent or otherwise supplied to such other person, he threatens such other person with legal proceedings if the latter takes away with him the wearing apparel so lent or supplied.

(3) No legal proceedings, whether civil or criminal, shall be taken against such other person for taking away or being found in possession of any such wearing apparel as was necessary to enable such other person to leave such premises or brothel.