An Act to provide in pursuance of the International Convention signed at New York on the 9th day of May, 1950, for the Prevention of Immoral Traffic.
The Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956 has 32 sections in 1 chapter, amended 4 times. Each link below opens the official text of that section. Official PDF on India Code.
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All sections of the Immoral Traffic (Prevention) Act, 1956
- Section 1 – Short title, extent and commencement
- Section 2 – Definitions
- Section 2A – Rule of construction regarding enactments not extending to Jammu and Kashmir (omitted/repealed)
- Section 3 – Punishment for keeping a brothel or allowing premises to be used as a brothel
- Section 4 – Punishment for living on the earnings of prostitution
- Section 5 – Procuring, inducing or taking person for the sake of prostitution
- Section 6 – Detaining a person in premises where prostitution is carried on
- Section 7 – Prostitution in or in the vicinity of public places
- Section 8 – Seducing or soliciting for purpose of prostitution
- Section 9 – Seduction of a person in custody
- Section 10 – Release on probation of good conduct or after due admonition (omitted/repealed)
- Section 10A – Detention in a corrective institution
- Section 11 – Notification of address of previously convicted offenders
- Section 12 – Security for good behaviour from habitual offenders (omitted/repealed)
- Section 13 – Special police officer and advisory body
- Section 14 – Offences to be cognizable
- Section 15 – Search without warrant
- Section 16 – Rescue of person
- Section 17 – Intermediate custody of persons removed under section 15 or rescued under section 16
- Section 17A – Conditions to be observed before placing persons rescued under section 16 to parents or guardians
- Section 18 – Closure of brothel and eviction of offenders from the premises
- Section 19 – Application for being kept in a protective home or provided care and protection by court
- Section 20 – Removal of prostitute from any place
- Section 21 – Protective homes
- Section 21A – Production of records
- Section 22 – Trials
- Section 22A – Power to establish Special Courts
- Section 22B – Power of Court to try cases summarily
- Section 22AA – Power of Central Government to establish special courts
- Section 23 – Power to make rules
- Section 24 – Act not to be in derogation of certain other Acts
- Section 25 – Repeal and savings