CO129-582-2 Vagrancy Amendment Ordinance 1939 1-5-1939 - 19-12-1939 — Page 20

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A BILL

intituled

An Ordinance to amend the Vagrancy Ordinance,

Be it enacted by the Governor of Hong Kong, with the

advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as

follows:-

Short title.

1.

This Ordinance may be cited as the Vagrancy

Amendment Ordinance, 1939.

Amendment of long title of Ordinance No.9 of 1897.

New paragraph (d) added to Ordinance No.9 of 1897, s.

2.

New section 24A inserted in Ordinance No.9 of 1897.

2.

The long title of the Vagrancy Ordinance, 1897,

is amended by the addition of the words "destitutes and

after the word "vagrants" at the end thereof.

mendicants"

3.

Section 2 of the Vagrancy Ordinance, 1897, is

amended by the addition of the following paragraph at the

end thereof

(a) "Destitute" means any person who is, or is

likely to be, a charge upon public funds or private

charity by reason of mental or bodily ill-health or

insufficiency of means to support himself and his

dependants (if any).

4.

The Vagrancy Ordinance, 1897, is amended by

the insertion of the following new section after section

24 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.

(2) The magistrate shall, in such case, and may in

any other case where a person apparently a mendicant or

a destitute comes before him, make a summary inquiry

into his circumstances and, if satisfied that he is a

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