246 “‘Lhevefore, there will be no additional cost as far ax Barbadus is concerned. ‘the arrangements for the operation of the In- niitute have now been reduced to the form of the draft Agreement, which is set out here in the Sched alo to the Resolution and which, on the face of at, is reasonable, and contais all the various terms and conditions under which tie Berbados Goverment 1s willing to participate. Hon. members will have gone through the terme of the draft Agreement, and they will have seen that Barbados is entitled to four places, British Guiana ten, Antigua two, St. Witts-Nevis-\neuilla twa, Montserrat and the British Virgin Tslands one, Trini- dad and Tobago thirteen, Grenada, St. Vineent, St Lucia and Dominica two each, making a total of forty places. Under the new arrangements, when the expan sion at the Institute shell have taken place, Barba dos will be entitled to six student places, and that will be puplementing the wishes of this Chamber which, in 7957, insisted that Barbados should have more than four student places. The {Touse has the assurance thevefore, that in the very near future— the expansion programme is taking place at present —probably, by the end of the year Barbadians will be enjovinge six student places which has been the desire of this Chamber froin the time of the ineep- tion of the scheme, a\s Clause 5 (2) of the Schedule sets out, in tue event of the expansion of the Institute, the totat uumber of places which the Participating Govern- ments may be occupying through their nominees shall be determined in the same proportions as those adopted im Article 5 (1), provided that the proper tignate basis of woutribution towards Capital is- penditure as between the Participating Governments see cut in Article 4 (2) is maintained. Mv. Speaker, the terms of this draft Agreement siaply implement the terms and conditions to which this Government has agreed during 1951. all the other Participating Governments have already signed this Agreement. and had the eoneurrenee of their respective Legislatures in assenting to the terms of this Agreement, It is on account of the hurricane and other factors whith are well known to hon. members that we are the last of the Participating Govern- nents actually to assent in the Leeislature to thts draft Agreement, Ton. members can rest assured that the terms and conditions of this Aereoment are nerfeetly in order, and that they implement. the conditions under which we went inte the formation and establishment of this Eastern Caribhean Farm Institnte. T bee to move that this Resolution do nos pass. Hon. M. E. COX: TI beg to second that. The aucstion that this Resotutton do now pas» was put and resolved in the affirmative withant divis ton, ets OFFENCES AGAINST THE PERSON BILL Mr. SPEAKER: The next Order of the Dav stands in the name of the Tfon, Minister of Social Services:—- To move the second reading of a Bill to amend the Offences Against The Person Act, 1868. ion. Dr. TE. G. TI. COMMINS: Mr. Speaker. in moving the second reading of this Bill, T should like to point out that Scetion 45 of the Offences Against The Person Act, 1868, discriminates against women of immoral character by denying them pro. tection against procurement. That might have been quite in order in 1868 when the Act was passed, but recently, there has been an Tnternational Convention brought into foree and among the provisions of that OFFICIAL GAZETTE JANUARY 17, L957 _ a ee es) einen ran Convention, the removal of this discrimination was sought. The Act, as it stands at present, is found tw be at variance with the present Act in the Unitee ‘Kingdom. In 1951, a similar step was takeu for the removal of this discrimmation, and we are now ask- ing the Legislature of this Colony to honour that international Convention by removing that discrimi. nation which exists now im the 1868 Act. Section 45 of the Act reads as follows :-— “Any person who — (1) procures or attempts to procure any girl or woman under twenty-one years of age, not being & common prostitute, or of known iminoral charac- ter, to have unlawful camial connexion, either with- in or without the Island, with any other person or persons; or (2) procures or attempts to procure any woman or girl to become, either within or without the Island, a common prostitute; or (ed procures ve arten:pis to provure any woman or girl to leave the Island with intent that she may become an inmate of a brother elsewhere; or (4) procures or attempts to procure any woman or girl to leave her usnal place of abode in the Island (such place not being a brothel), with imtent that she may for the purposes of prostitution be- eet ip crimate OF p beatheb within oe without the Setibio gids of a adisdemeanaur. 027? Aid the penalty om belug convicted is set out. We are asking in this amending Bill, to delete from stoscetion 1, the following words; ‘‘not being a conunon prostitute, or of known immoral character’’ In Sub-section 4 the words “such place not being a brothei”” oeveur, and we are asking to delete them. By deleting these words in those two Sections it will bring the Act of 1868 into line with present dey thought in connection with women of that sort. I beg to move that this Bill be now read a second time. lon. M, KE. COX: 4.15 p.m, The question that the Bill be now read a second time was put and resolved in the affirmative without dieistan, Gnoinelion of Ton, Dro HW. G. WH. CUMMINS, ceed hip How WB, COR. Wr. Speaker left the Chartrand the Pause weit fata Conmrltee an the Bal, Mr. SMITH being in the Chair. Clauses 1 to 3 inclusive were called and passed. On motion of Hon. Dr. IT. GW. CUMMINS, see- onded by How. M. EL COX, Mr. CITAIRMAN re- ported the passing of the Bill in. Committee. Mr, SPEAKER resumed the Chair and. reported accordingly. On separate motions of Hon, Dr. HH. G. FF. CUMMINS, seconded by Hon. M. FE. COX in each case, the Bill was read a third time and passed. I beg to second that. WATERWORKS, BILL Mr, SPEAKER: The next Order of the Dav stands in the name of the Hon. Minister of Commnni- cations, Works and Housing; second reading of a Bill to amend the Waterworks Act, 1895. Hon. M. E. COX: My. Speaker. this Bill seeks to amend the Waterworks Act, 1895. I think hon- onrable members will remember some time ago, T intimated to this House that a Bill was coming down to simplify and make easy the administration of the Waterworks Act. As is set out in the Objects and Reasons of the Bill, honourable members will see that various clauses of the Act of 1895 are antiquat- ed, and it is absolutely necessary to have a new Bill so as to fit them in with modern developments. (T have copies of marginal notes of the various amend- ments and 7 would like the Clerk to hand them to