Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on the Strict Prohibition against Prostitution and Whoring (Amended in 2009)
Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on the Strict Prohibition against Prostitution and Whoring (Amended in 2009)
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According to the Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on Approving the Report of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on the Status of Legislative Review and Clean-up and Proposed Handling, this document has ceased to be effective.
Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on the Strict Prohibition against Prostitution and Whoring (Amended in 2009)
Order of the President of the People's Republic of China No.18
August 27, 2009
(Adopted at the 21st Session of the Standing Committee of the Seventh National People's Congress on September 4, 1991, promulgated according to the Order of the President of the People's Republic of China No.51 on September 4, 1991, and amended in accordance with the Decision on Amending Certain Laws adopted at the Tenth Session of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress on August 27, 2009)
With a view to strictly prohibiting prostitution and whoring and severely punishing criminals who organize, force, lure, shelter or procure any other person or persons to engage in prostitution, and maintaining the public security order and good social morale, the relevant provisions of the Criminal Law are supplemented or amended as follows:
I. Whoever organizes any other persons or persons to engage in prostitution shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of more than ten years or life imprisonment, and shall concurrently be punished with a fine of less than CNY10,000 or confiscation of property; where the circumstances are especially serious, the offender shall be sentenced to death with the concurrent punishment of confiscation of property.
Whoever assists in organizing any other person or persons to engage in prostitution shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of more than three years but less than ten years, and shall concurrently be punished with a fine of less than CNY10, 000; where the circumstances are serious, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of more than ten years, and shall concurrently be sentenced to a fine of less than CNY10, 000 or confiscation of property.
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According to the Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on Approving the Report of the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on the Status of Legislative Review and Clean-up and Proposed Handling, this document has ceased to be effective.
Decision of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress on the Strict Prohibition against Prostitution and Whoring (Amended in 2009)
Order of the President of the People's Republic of China No.18
August 27, 2009
(Adopted at the 21st Session of the Standing Committee of the Seventh National People's Congress on September 4, 1991, promulgated according to the Order of the President of the People's Republic of China No.51 on September 4, 1991, and amended in accordance with the Decision on Amending Certain Laws adopted at the Tenth Session of the Standing Committee of the 11th National People's Congress on August 27, 2009)
With a view to strictly prohibiting prostitution and whoring and severely punishing criminals who organize, force, lure, shelter or procure any other person or persons to engage in prostitution, and maintaining the public security order and good social morale, the relevant provisions of the Criminal Law are supplemented or amended as follows:
I. Whoever organizes any other persons or persons to engage in prostitution shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of more than ten years or life imprisonment, and shall concurrently be punished with a fine of less than CNY10,000 or confiscation of property; where the circumstances are especially serious, the offender shall be sentenced to death with the concurrent punishment of confiscation of property.
Whoever assists in organizing any other person or persons to engage in prostitution shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of more than three years but less than ten years, and shall concurrently be punished with a fine of less than CNY10, 000; where the circumstances are serious, the offender shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of more than ten years, and shall concurrently be sentenced to a fine of less than CNY10, 000 or confiscation of property.
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