L. S.
HONG KONG
No. 41 OF 1939.
I assent.
G. A. S. NORTHCOTE,
Governor.
15th December, 1939.
An Ordinance to amend the Vagrancy Ordinance, 1897.
[15th December, 1939.]
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- Short title. ment Ordinance, 1939.
of long
2. The long title of the Vagrancy Ordinance, 1897, is Amendment amended by the addition of the words "destitutes and title of mendicants after the word vagrants at the end Ordinance thereof.
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3. Section 2 of the Vagrancy Ordinance, 1897, amended by the addition of the following paragraph at the
end thereof-
No. 9 of 1897.
New para- graph (d)
added to Ordinance No. 9 of
(d) "Destitute means any person who is, or is likely 1897, s. 2. to be, a charge upon public funds or private charity by reason of mental or bodily ill-health or insufficiency of means support himself and his dependants (if any).
4. The Vagrancy Ordinance, 1897, is amended by the New insertion of the following new section after section 24 section 24A thereof
24A.—(1) Any police officer may require any person who is apparently a mendicant or a destitute to accompany him or any other police officer to, and to appear before, a magistrate.
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(2) The magistrate shall, in such case, and may in any other case where a person apparently a mendicant or destitute comes before him, make a summary inquiry into his circumstances and, if satisfied that he is a mendicant or a destitute and that he is unable to prove either that he is or
inserted in Ordinance No. 9 of
1897.
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