# Street Offences Act 1959, Section 4: Punishment for living on earnings of prostitution.


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.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Eliz2/7-8/57/section/4 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/street-offences-act-1959/section-4
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