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Rh Licensing Act, 1953 (which relate to the sale of intoxicating liquor without a licence, and to the consumption of intoxicating liquor at parties organised for gain).

(5) This section shall not have effect on a person’s conviction of an offence committed before the commencement of this Act.

4. The maximum term of imprisonment to which a person is liable if convicted on indictment of an offence under section thirty of the Sexual Offences Act, 1956 (man living on earnings of prostitution), or under section thirty-one of that Act (woman exercising control over prostitute) shall, for offences committed after the commencement of this Act, be seven years; and accordingly, for offences so committed, in the Second Schedule to that Act, in items 30 and 31, “seven years” shall be substituted for “two years” in the third column.

5.—(1) This Act may be cited as the Street Offences Act, 1959.

(2) The enactments mentioned in the Schedule to this Act are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the third column of that Schedule, except as respects offences committed before the commencement of this Act.

(3) This Act shall not extend to Scotland or to Northern Ireland.

(4) This Act shall come into force at the expiration of one month beginning with the date on which it is passed. 4