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No. 9 of 1897.
VAGRANCY.
Provision of houses of detention, and appointment of officers thereof.
[cf. No. 39 of 1935, s. 15.]
Taking of vagrant before magistrate.
Power to magistrate to declare person to be vagrant.
Committal of vagrant to a house of detention.
Power to detain vagrant on order of committal.
Power to magistrate to send vagrant to place of employment.
this Ordinance against any prostitute save under the authority of the Governor in Council.
3.-(1) The Governor may provide houses of detention for vagrants and may appoint superintendents thereof and other officers and may remove them at pleasure.
(2) The Governor may by notification certify any building or part of a building to be a house of detention.
(3) Every house of detention shall be under the immediate charge of the superintendent thereof.
[s. 4, rep. Law Revision Ordinance, 1937.]
5. 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.
6. 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 his circumstances 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.
7. 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 him to go to a house of detention, and shall draw up an order to that effect.
8. Such vagrant shall then be placed in charge of a police officer and the said order shall be a sufficient authority to any police officer for retaining him in his charge while such vagrant is on his way to a house of detention, and to the superintendent thereof for receiving and detaining such vagrant.
9.-(1) Where the magistrate dealing with such vagrant is of opinion that he is likely to obtain employment in the Colony, he may send him in charge of a police officer to the place where such employment is likely to be obtained, and shall draw up an order to that effect.
(2) Such order shall be a sufficient authority to any police officer for retaining the vagrant in his charge while such vagrant
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1937.