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Provision of houses of
No. 9 of 1897.
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VAGRANCY.
(b) "Vagrant" means any person, other than a Chinese, found asking for alms or being without either employment or visible means of subsistence or being a prostitute, provided however that no action shall be taken under the provisions of 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.
Superintendment of houses of detention, appointment of officers thereof.
(2) The Governor may by notification certify any building or part of a building to be a house of detention.
(3) Until such house is provided, Victoria Gaol may be used as such house for the purposes of this Ordinance.
4.-(1) Every house of detention shall be under the immediate charge of the superintendent thereof.
Management of houses of detention.
(2) Until any other appointment is made, the Superintendent of Prisons shall be the superintendent of the house of detention authorised by section 3(3).
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.
Taking of vagrant before 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.
Power to magistrate to declare person to be 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.
Committal of vagrant to a house of detention.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
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856
Provision of houses of
No. 9 of 1897.
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VAGRANCY.
(b) "Vagrant means any person, other than a Chinese, found asking for alms or being without either employment or visible means of subsistence or being a prostitute, provided however that no action shall be taken under the provisions of 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 and appoint- officers and may remove them at pleasure.
detention,
ment of
officers thereof.
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Superintend-
(2) The Governor may by notification certify any building or part of a building to be a house,of detention.
(3) Until such house is provided, Victoria Gaol may be used as such house for the purposes of this Ordinance.
4.-(1) Every house of detention shall be under the ents of houses immediate charge of the superintendent thereof.
of detention.
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Taking of vagrant before
magistrate.
Power to magistrate to declare person to be vagrant.
Committal
a house of
detention.
(2) Until any other appointment is made, the Super- intendent of Prisons shall be the superintendent of the house of detention authorised by section 3 (3).
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 inagistrate 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 of vagrant to 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.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1924.
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