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Rh any person of any obscene or indecent act with any child or young person shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $5,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 2 years or to both and, in the case of a second or subsequent conviction, to a fine not exceeding $10,000 or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding 4 years or to both.

Protector’s power to obtain information

7. A protector may, by notice in writing, require any person who the protector has reason to believe can furnish any information regarding any offence under section 4, 5 or 6 to appear before the protector at any reasonable time and at any convenient place and that person shall be legally bound to attend as required and to answer truthfully and to the best of his ability any question touching the offence.

Detention of child or young person in place of safety

8.—(1) A protector or a police officer or any person authorised by a Magistrate, protector or Justice of the Peace may take to a place of safety any child or young person in respect of whom any offence under this Part or any offence involving bodily injury to a child or young person has been, or there is reason to believe has been, committed.

(2) A child or young person so taken to a place of safety and any child or young person who seeks refuge or protection may be detained in a place of safety until the child or young person can be brought before a Magistrate’s Court and the Court may make such order as is mentioned in subsection (3), or may cause the child or young person to be dealt with as circumstances may admit and require, until the charge made against any person in respect of any offence under section 4, 5 or 6 with regard to the child has been determined by the conviction or discharge of that person.

(3) When it appears to a court that an offence under this Part or any offence involving bodily injury to a child or young person has been committed in respect of any child or young person who is brought before it and that it is expedient, in the interests of the child or young person that an order should be made under this subsection, the court may, without prejudice to any other power under this Part, make such