Trading on prostitution

(1) A person who, (a) being a male person, knowingly lives wholly or in part on the earnings of prostitution; (b) being a male person, in any public place persistently solicits or importunes for immoral purposes; or (c) loiters about, or importunes any person in any street or other place for the purpose of is guilty of an offence and is on summary conviction liable, (i) in the case of a first conviction, to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months; and (ii) in the case of a second or subsequent conviction, to imprisonment for a term not exceeding twelve months. 38 (2) If it is made to appear to a court of summary jurisdiction by information on oath that there is reason to suspect that any house, or any part of a house, is used by a female for purposes of prostitution, and that any male person residing in or frequenting the house is living wholly or in part on the earnings of the prostitute, the court may issue a warrant authorising any police officer to enter and search the house and to arrest that male person. (3) Where a male person is proved to live with, or to be habitually in the company of, a prostitute and has no visible means of subsistence, he shall, unless he can satisfy the court to the contrary, be deemed to be knowingly living on the earnings of prostitution.