(1)If it appears to a magistrate, on information made before him or her on oath by any person who, in the opinion of the magistrate, is acting bona fide in the interests of any other person, that there is reasonable cause to suspect that that person is unlawfully detained for immoral purposes in any place within the jurisdiction of that magistrate, the magistrate may issue a warrant authorising the person named in it to search for, and, when found, to keep in a place of safety the person unlawfully detained until he or she can be brought before a magistrate; and the magistrate before whom a person unlawfully detained is brought may cause that person to be delivered to his or her parents or guardian or to be dealt with as the circumstances may permit and require.

(2)A magistrate issuing a warrant under subsection (1) may, by that warrant or any other warrant, cause any person accused of unlawfully detaining a person to be apprehended and brought before a magistrate and proceedings to be taken for punishing that person according to law.

(3)A person shall be deemed to be unlawfully detained for immoral purposes if he or she is detained for the purpose of sexual intercourse or other sexual gratification with any particular person or generally.

(4)A person authorised by warrant under this section to search for a person unlawfully detained for immoral purposes may enter, if need be by force, any house, building or other place mentioned in the warrant, and may remove that person from that house, building or other place.