§ 1324. Every information, conviction, mandate, or Form of warrant, under the Act, is to be deemed sufficient if the proceedings. offence is set forth in the words of the Act; and no conviction, mandate, or warrant is to be held void by reason of any defect therein, if it be alleged therein that the party has committed such offence.

without war

§ 1325. Any person found committing any offence under Apprehension the Act may be immediately apprehended, without warrant, rant. by any peace officer or constable, and forthwith taken before any neighbouring Justice, to be dealt with according to law.

interfere with

§ 1326. It is specially provided that nothing contained Not to in the Act is to interfere with the execution of the sentence passed upon any such child on his or her conviction.

CONSTABLES AND ARMED CONSTABULARY.

For duties and liabilities of ordinary constables and peace officers, see the chapter thereon, ante, p. 364.

sentence.

As regards the power of constables to take recognizances Recognizances in certain cases, see post, Tit. Recognizances.

SPECIAL CONSTABLES.

See §§ 232 to 238 inclusive, and Appendix, p. 68.

CONTAGIOUS DISEASES.

No. 52.

§ 1327. The Legislature of the Colony, in order to check Act 1869, the progress of venereal disease, and to put restraints upon persons suffering from it, and also to promote the reformation of prostitutes, embodied a series of provisions upon that subject in "The Contagious Diseases Act, 1869."

Sec. 2.

§ 1328. The term "contagious disease," used in the Act, Interpretation is, by the interpretation clause, confined to venereal disease, including gonorrhoea.

Extent of Act.

Sec. 3.

Visiting

surgeons. Sec. 5.

Female reformatory. Sec. 6.

Regulations.
Sec. 7.

Justice to issue notice.

Sec. 8.

The Act is to extend to such districts as the Governor may from time to time proclaim to be subject to its pro

visions.

§ 1329. The Governor, is empowered to appoint, for each of such districts, a medical officer, to be, during pleasure, visiting surgeon there,-notice of the appointment being given in the New Zealand Gazette; and if necessary, he may appoint a medical officer as assistant to such surgeon, who is to have the same powers and duties as the principal.

§ 1330. The Governor may, from time to time, declare any gaol or building, or part thereof, to be a female reformatory; and every female reformatory so declared is to be a public gaol; but no person is to be committed thereto except under the provisions of the Act.

§ 1331. The Governor is also to make adequate provision for the moral .and religious training and instruction of the persons in any reformatory under the Act; and he is also empowered to make, and from time to time to alter, regulations for the management and government of every reformatory under the Act.

§ 1332. The following provisions are made for periodical medical examinations:

If a superintendent of police (1) lays an information, on oath, before a Justice, to the effect that he has good cause to Form No. 209. believe that a woman, named in it, is a common prostitute, and either is resident within the limits of a district to which the Act applies, or, being resident within five miles of such limits, has, within fourteen days of the laying of such information, been within those limits for the purpose of Form No. 210. prostitution; the Justice may, if he thinks fit, issue a notice thereof addressed to the woman, which notice the Superintendent is to cause to be served upon her.

(1) "Police" means police or constabulary authorized to act in any district to which the Act is extended; and the term "Superintendent" includes Commissioner of Police and Inspector.

examination.

§ 1333. If the woman on whom such notice is served Order for (1) appears by herself, or by some person on her behalf, at the periodical time and place appointed in the notice, or at some other time Sec. 9. and place appointed by adjournment; or (2) if she does not so appear, and it is shown, on oath, to the Justice present that the notice was served on her at a reasonable time before the time appointed in the notice, or that reasonable notice of such adjournment was given to her, as the case may be; the Justice present, on oath being made before him, substantiating the matter of the information to his satisfaction, may, if he thinks fit, order that the woman be subject to a periodical Form No. 211. medical examination by the visiting surgeon, for any period.

not exceeding one year, for the purpose of ascertaining at the time of each such examination whether she is affected with a contagious disease as above defined.

examination.

§ 1334. Such order being made, the woman is to be Time and subject to such periodical examination, and the order will be place of sufficient warrant for the visiting surgeon conducting such Sec. 10. examination accordingly.

The order is to specify the time and place at which the Form No. 213. woman is to attend for the first examination.

The superintendent of police is to cause a copy of the order to be served upon the woman.

§ 1335. Any woman in any place where the Act applics Voluntary may, by a submission in writing signed by her in the presence see. 11.

submission.

of a superintendent of police, and attested by him, subject Form No. 212. herself to a periodical medical examination, for a period not exceeding one year.

examinations.

§ 1336. The Governor may make regulations, from time Rules as to to time, for each of the districts to which the Act applies, cra respecting the time and places for medical examination of women, and generally respecting the arrangements for the conduct of such examinations at such places.

Copies of such regulations, from time to time in force for each place, are to be sent by the Governor to the clerk of

Surgeon to prescribe times.

Sec. 13.

Result of examination. Sec. 14.

Certificate of

surgeon.

the Justices, the visiting surgeon, and the superintendent of police.

§ 1337. The visiting surgeon, subject to such regulations, and to the circumstances of each case, is to prescribe at the first examination of such woman, and afterwards, from time to time, the times and places at which she is required again to attend for examination, and is, from time to time, to give or cause to be given to such woman notice in writing of the times and places so prescribed.

§ 1338. The following are the provisions of the Act for detention in a female reformatory :

If upon any examination, as above mentioned, the woman is found to be affected with a contagious disease, she is thereupon liable to be detained in a reformatory, subject to the provisions of the Act.

The visiting surgeon is to sign a certificate to the effect Form No. 214. that she is affected with a contagious disease, and naming the reformatory in which she is to be detained. He is to sign the certificate in triplicate, and cause one of the originals to be delivered to the woman, and the others to the superintendent of police.

Sec. 15.

Placing in § 1339. Any woman to whom such certificate relates is reformatory. to proceed to the reformatory therein named, and place herself there for medical treatment. If she neglects or refuses to do so, after the certificate is delivered to her, the superintendent of police, or a constable acting under his orders, is to apprehend her, and convey her, with all practicable speed, to the reformatory, and place her there for medical treatment.

Detention.
Sec. 16.

The certificate of the visiting surgeon will be sufficient authority for his doing so.

§ 1340. A woman so placing herself, or placed, in a reformatory under the Act, for medical treatment, is to be detained there for that purpose, by the visiting surgeon, until she is discharged by writing under his hand,

§ 1341. The superintendent of police is to deliver one of Authority. the three original certificates of the visiting surgeon to the visiting surgeon of the place mentioned in it; and such certificate is to be sufficient authority for the detention of the woman in the reformatory.

detention.

§ 1342. No woman is to be detained under the authority Limit of of one certificate for any longer term than three months, Sec. 18. unless the visiting surgeon for the place where she is detained

certifies that her further detention for medical treatment is Form No. 215. requisite.

That certificate is to be in duplicate, and one of the originals is to be delivered to the woman.

detention.

§ 1343. In that case, the woman may be further detained Further in the reformatory, in which she is, at the expiration of the period of three months, by the visiting surgeon, until discharged by him, by writing under his hand.

But no woman is to be detained under any one certificate, for a longer time, on the whole, than six months.

Form No. 216.

Sec. 19.

§ 1344. If any woman detained in any reformatory under Application the Act considers herself entitled to be discharged, and the for discharge. visiting surgeon refuses to discharge her, she is, upon her request, to be conveyed before a Justice; and such Justice, if satisfied upon reasonable evidence that she is free from contagious disease, is to discharge her from such reformatory; and the order of discharge is to have the same effect as the discharge of the visiting surgeon.

Sec. 20.

§ 1345. Every woman conveyed under the Act to a re- Detention, formatory, is to be deemed, while being so conveyed, and legal custody. also while detained there, to be legally in the custody of the person so conveying or detaining her; although for that purpose she be removed out of one into another jurisdiction, or be detained in a jurisdiction other than that in which the certificate of the visiting surgeon was made.