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-f\ny person who ha ours any child knowing or having reason to believe hat such child is a transferre~ child shall report th fact to a Protector or at a Pohce Station within a p riod of forty-eight hours. PART IV. TRAFFICKING N CHILDREN. . ,Unlawful 26. (1) 'E . y ;.ra.nsfe! of transa t· vhery person w O takes any part Ill a_nh )OSsess1on C ion t e ob. t . f hie :ustody o~ is to transf Jee or o e of the obJects o W ·iy :hil~.01 of a or permane!~1;r ~hnfer, wh lly or partly, temporlarf a ~hild for an v~ e possess on custody or cont~o O to mtprisonmeJit 0 /u~~te cons deration shall be liable ot exceeding two ei er de cription for any terrn n · years. CHILDREN AND YO UNG PERSONS · (2) Every person shall b · H b . · n terill not exceeding tw ' : le to imprisonment for 3 [hority or excuse harbo rys arsh, who without lawful a,0 custody t 1 . or con ro any chil with or as i h' . n is possession tetUPorary or permanent p ssessio respect to whom the has b~en trans£erred or co f errednfcustody or control derat10n by _a ny other per on with_or valu~ble consi- Malayan Union. in or without the (3') It shall be a defence in an . this sectio~ to prove that he trin~:~secut10n und~r contemp~at1on of or pursua t to a bona took plac~ 1n or adoption and that at leas one of th · fide marriage of the child or the legal ardian ;anatural pare!lts b party to the marriage, or to the adoptio! ~hnse~tmg ing party, _and had expres ly consented ty0 the a op~- cular marriage or adoptio . e parti-