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THE HONG KONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, JUNE 10, 1932.
HONG KONG.
No. 19 of 1932.
I assent.
W. T. SOUTHorn,
L.S.
Officer Administering the Government.
10th June, 1932.
Short title.
Amendment of Ordinance
No. 9 of 1897, s. 2.
5 Geo 4, c. 83, s. 3.
Amendment
An Ordinance to amend the law relating to Vagrancy.
[10th June, 1932.]
BE it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Vagrancy Amend- ment Ordinance, 1932.
2. Section 2 of the Vagrancy Ordinance, 1897, is amended as follows:-
Paragraph (b) is relettered paragraph (c) and the follow- ing paragraph is inserted immediately after paragraph (a) :-
(b) "Mendicant" means any person wandering abroad, or placing himself or herself in any public place, street, highway, court, passage or waterway to beg or gather alms, or causing or procuring or encouraging any child or children so to do; and "Mendicancy" shall be interpreted accordingly.
3. The Vagrancy Ordinance, 1897, is amended by the of Ordinance insertion of the following section immediately after
section 28-
No. 9 of
1897. New
section.
Punishment
of person
convicted of anendicancy.
Repeal of Ordinance No. 1 of 1845, s. 10 and of Ordinance No. 15 of 1931.
Repeal of Ordinance No. 9 of 1897, s. 16.
28A. (1) Mendicancy is forbidden.
(2) Every person who is guilty of mendicancy shall upon. summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty- five dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month.
4. Section 10 of the Summary Offences Ordinance, 1845, (as amended by section 3 of the Summary Offences Ordinance, 1924, and by section 2 of the Summary Offences Amendment Ordinance, 1931) and the Summary Offences Amendment Ordinance, 1931, are repealed.
5. Section 16 of the Vagrancy Ordinance, 1897, is repealed.
Passed the Legislative Council of Hong Kong, this 9th day of June, 1932.
R. A. C. NORTH, Deputy Clerk of Councils.