AD 1897.]
VAGRANCY
[No. 9.
349
grant before
Any Police officer may require any person who is apparently a vagrant to accompany him or any other Police officer to, and to appear before a Magistrate.
The Magistrate shall, in such case or in any other case where a person apparently a vagrant comes before him, make a summary inquiry into the circumstances of such apparent vagrant, and, if satisfied that he is a vagrant, shall declare him to be such, adding, where practicable, any prior date from which, in his opinion, such person has, in this Colony, been a vagrant as defined by this Ordinance.
If the Magistrate is further of opinion that such vagrant is not likely to obtain employment at once, or if he has reason to believe that a declaration of vagrancy has on any former occasion been recorded in respect of such vagrant, he shall require such vagrant to go to the House of Detention, and shall draw up an order to that effect.
8. Such vagrant shall then be placed in charge of the Police for the purpose of being forwarded to the House of Detention, and the said order shall be a sufficient authority to the Police for retaining him in their charge while he is on his way to the House of Detention, and to the Superintendent of the House of Detention for receiving and detaining him.
9.(1.) Where the Magistrate dealing with such vagrant is of opinion that the vagrant is likely to obtain employment in the Colony, the Magistrate may, in his discretion, forward the vagrant in charge of the Police to the place where such employment is likely to be obtained and may draw up an order to that effect.
(2) Such order shall be a sufficient authority to the Police for retaining the vagrant in their charge while he is on his way to such place of employment, and afterwards, in case he does not succeed in obtaining such employment.
10. (1.) The Magistrate dealing with any vagrant shall, to the best of his ability, assist him in seeking employment, and may in the meantime, if he thinks fit, keep such vagrant in charge of the Police.
(2) If the vagrant fails to obtain suitable employment within a reasonable time, not exceeding at the most seven days, the Magistrate shall forward him to a House of Detention, as provided in section 8.
11. Every person, while in charge of the Police under this Ordinance while seeking employment, shall be entitled to the same maintenance and be treated as a prisoner on remand, subject, so far as practicable, to the same regulations as prisoners detained on remand.
Repealed
12(0)