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1.
Objects and Reasons.
The long title of the Vagrancy Ordinance, 1897,
is "An Ordinance to amend the law relating to vagrants".
The Ordinance however deals with "mendicants" as well as "vagrants"; and, as it is now intended to include provisions relating to "destitutes" who do not belong to the Colony and cannot prove that they are or have the status of British subjects, clause 2 of this Bill extends the long title of the Ordinance by the addition of the words "destitutes and mendicants" after the word "vagrants".
2.
Clause 3 of the Bill adds to section 2 of the
Ordinance a definition of "destitute" adapted from the terms of the definition of "destitute person" in section 2(1)(c) of the Deportation (British Subjects) Ordinance,
No.16 of 1936.
3.
Clause 4 of the Bill adds a new section, 24A,
Sub-section (1) follows,
to the Vagrancy Ordinance, 1897.
mutatis mutandis the terms of section 5 of that Ordinance.
The first part of sub-section (2) is generally on the lines
of section 6 of the 1897 Ordinance. The latter part is
derived partly from section 2(2) and section 3(c) of
Ordinance No.16 of 1936, which relate to the deportation
of destitute immigrant British subjects not belonging to
the Colony, and partly from section 13 (2) of Ordinance
No. 8 of 1934 which relates to magisterial expulsion
orders for contraventions of the Immigration and Passports
Ordinance. Sub-section (3) is adapted from section 13(3)
of Ordinance No.8 of 1934 and from the amendments made
to sections 3 and 4 of that Ordinance by sections 2 and 3
of Ordinance No.23 of 1935.
Sub-section (4) provides a
penalty for expelled persons who return within five years,