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Amendment
of Ordinance
No. 9 of
1897. New
section.
Punishment
of
person
convicted of
mendicancy.
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.
3. The Vagrancy Ordinance, 1897, is amended by the insertion of the following section immediately after section 28-
28A. (1) Mendicancy is forbidden.
(2) Every person who is guilty of mendicancy shall upor 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by section 2 of the Summary Offences Amendment Ordinance, 1931) and the Summary Offences Amendment Ordinance, 1931, are repealed.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 Section 16 of the Vagrancy Ordinance, 1897, is repealed.
Objects and Reasons.
1. Section 10 of the Summary Offences Ordinance, 1845, as amended in 1924 and 1931 punishes mendicancy with a fine but does not define mendicancy.
2. Section 2 of this amending Ordinance adopts as a definition a portion of section 3 of the Vagrancy Act, 1824, and places it in the Vagrancy Ordinance, 1897, to which section 3 of this Ordinance transfers the mendicancy provision of the Summary Offences Ordinance and adds an alternative of imprisonment to the penalty. The word "waterway" has been added to the definition taken from the Vagrancy Act.
3. Section 15 of the principal Ordinance provides that the Superintendent of the House of Detention shall use his best endeavours to obtain suitable employment outside the house for vagrants admitted thereto.
4. Section 16 provides for the punishment of any vagrant who refuses or neglects to avail himself of such employment, when obtained.
5. Similar penal sections have been enacted in other Colonies; but it is not considered necessary to retain them. Section 16 is therefore repealed by this amending. Ordinance...
April, 1932.
C. G. ALABASTER,
Attorney General.
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