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6 :(e) any part of the premises;

"prostitution" means the offering of an individual's body for hire, whether for money or in kind, for the purpose of sexual penetration;

"public servant" has the same meaning as in section 21 of the Penal Code, and includes any person who is deemed under this Act or any other written law to be a public servant for the purposes of the Penal Code;

"serfdom" means the condition or status of a tenant who is, by law, custom or agreement, bound to live and labour on land belonging to another person and to render any determinate service to that other person, whether for reward or not, and is not free to change that condition or status;

"servile form of marriage” means any institution or practice in which—
 * (a) a woman or female child, without the right to refuse, is promised or given in marriage on payment of a consideration in money or in kind to her parent, guardian, family or any other person or group of persons;
 * (b) the husband of a woman or female child, or his family or clan, has the right to transfer her to another person, whether for value received or otherwise; or
 * (c) a woman or female child on the death of her husband is liable to be inherited by another person;

"servitude", in relation to an individual, means any condition or obligation, not authorised by any written law, to work or render services from which the individual cannot escape or which the individual is not free to change;

"sexual exploitation", in relation to an individual, means the involving of the individual in prostitution, sexual servitude or the provision of any other form of sexual service, including the commission of any obscene or indecent act by the