Section 19: Prohibited Immigrants.

(1) The immigration into Sierra Leone by land, sea or air of any person being or appearing to be of any of the classes specified in subsection (2) is prohibited: Provided that such prohibition shall not apply to a person to whom a temporary or transit visa is issued under the provisions of section 18. (2) The classes of prohibited immigrants shall be - (a) any person who is without visible means of support or is likely to become a pauper or a public charge; (b) any idiot or insane person; (c) any person who, from official Government records, or from information officially received is deemed by the Governor-General to be undesirable; (d) any person who is shown, to the satisfaction of the Governor-General, to be likely to conduct himself so as to be dangerous to peace and good order in Sierra Leone, or to excite enmity between the people of Sierra Leone and Her Majesty or to intrigue against Her Majesty's power and authority in Sierra Leone; (e) any person or class of persons the immigration of whom is prohibited by Order of the Governor-General under section 20 or in respect of whom an Expulsion Order has been made under the provisions of section 21; (f) (i) any person who - (aa) has not in his possession a valid passport or in the case of a privileged African a travel certificate; or (bb) being a juvenile under the age of sixteen years, has not in his possession a valid passport or in the case of a privileged African a travel certificate or is not accompanied by an adult on whose valid passport or travel certificate particulars of such juvenile appear; (ii) in the case of a person who is neither a privileged African nor a Commonwealth citizen nor a citizen of a country which has been declared by the Governor-General by notice in the Gazette to be a country the subjects or citizens of which are exempt from this provision, such passport must bear the visa of a Sierra Leone Consul or other accredited Sierra Leone Representative, stating whether the person concerned is in transit or otherwise; (g) any prostitute; (h) any person who is or has been - (i) a brothel keeper; (ii) a householder permitting the defilement of a young girl on his premises; (iii) a person allowing a person under thirteen years of age to be in a brothel; (iv) a person causing or encouraging the seduction or prostitution of a girl under thirteen years of age; (v) a person trading in prostitution; or (vi) a procurer. (3) For the purposes of paragraphs (g) and (h) of subsection (2). "brothel keeper" includes any person who appears, acts or behaves himself as the owner of, or the person having the care, government or management of, any premises, or room or set of rooms in any premises, kept for purposes of prostitution; "householder permitting the defilement of a young girl on his premises" means any person who, being the owner or occupier of any premises or having, or acting or assisting in, the management or control thereof, induces or knowingly suffers any girl under the age of thirteen years to resort to or be in or upon such premises for the purpose of being unlawfully and carnally known by any man or for any lewd purpose; "person allowing a person under thirteen years of age to be in a brothel" means any person having the custody, charge or care of a child or young person who has attained the age of four years and is under the age of thirteen years, who allows that child or young person to reside in or frequent a brothel; "person causing or encouraging the seduction or prostitution, of a girl under thirteen years of age" means any person having custody, charge or care of a girl under the age of thirteen years who causes or encourages the seduction, unlawful carnal knowledge, or prostitution of, or the commission of an indecent assault upon, that girl; "person trading in prostitution" means - (a) a male person who knowingly lives wholly or in part on the earnings of prostitution or who, in any public place, persistently solicits or importunes for immoral purposes; or (b) a female who, for the purposes of gain, exercises control, direction or influence over the movements of a prostitute in such a manner as to show that such female is aiding, abetting or compelling her prostitution with any person or generally; "procurer" means any person who - (a) procures or attempts to procure any female under twenty-one years of age, not being a common prostitute or of known immoral character, to have unlawful carnal connection, either within or outside Sierra Leone, with any other person, or (b) procures or attempts to procure any female to become a common prostitute, either within or outside Sierra Leone, or (c) procures or attempts to procure any female to leave her usual place of abode (such place not being a brothel), with intent that she may, for the purposes of prostitution, become an inmate of a brothel, either within or outside Sierra Leone, or (d) by threats or intimidation procures or attempts to procure any female to have any unlawful carnal connection either within or outside Sierra Leone, or (e) by false pretences or false representations procures any female, not being a common prostitute or known immoral character, to have any unlawful carnal connection, either within or outside Sierra Leone, or (f) applies or administers to or causes to be taken by any female, any drug, matter, or thing, with intent to stupefy or overpower her so as thereby to enable any person to have unlawful carnal connection with that female; "prostitution" (with its grammatical variations and cognate expressions) includes the offering by a female of her body commonly for acts of lewdness for payment, although there is no act, or offer of an act, of ordinary sexual connection.