Section 6

keeps or manages or acts or assists in the management of a brothel; or

being the tenant, lessee, occupier, or the person in charge of any premises, knowingly per-mits such premises or any part thereof to be used as a brothel; or

being the owner of any premises, or the agent of such owner, lots the same or any part thereof with the knowledge that such premises or some part thereof are or is to be used as a brothel,

Women and Girls Protection or is wilfully a party to the continued use of such premises or any part thereof as a brothel, shall be liable to imprisonment for one year and to a fine of

$5,000; and on a second or subsequent conviction shall be liable to imprisonment for 5 years and to a fine of $20,000.

Any person being the tenant, lessee, occupier or person in charge of any place who lets such place or any part thereof shall notwithstanding such letting be guilty of an offence under this section if the place or any part thereof is used as a brothel, unless he proves that he has no knowledge that the place or such part thereof is used as a brothel.