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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PERSONS ACT (NORTHERN IRELAND) 1968 - SECT 24

Causing or allowing persons under sixteen to be used for begging.

24.(1) If any person causes or procures any child or young person under the
age of sixteen or, having the custody, charge or care of such a child or
young person, allows him to be in any street, premises or place for the
purpose of begging or receiving alms, or of inducing the giving of alms
(whether or not there is any pretence of singing, playing, performing,
offering anything for sale, or otherwise) he shall be guilty of an offence and
shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds
or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both.

(2) If a person having the custody, charge or care of a child or young person
is charged with an offence under this section, and it is proved that the child
or young person was in any street, premises or place for any such purpose as
aforesaid, and that the person charged allowed the child or young person to be
in the street, premises or place, he shall be presumed to have allowed him to
be in the street, premises or place for that purpose unless the contrary is
proved.

(3) If any person while singing, playing, performing or offering anything for
sale in a street or public place has with him a child who has been lent or
hired out to him, the child shall, for the purposes of this section, be deemed
to be in that street or place for the purpose of inducing the giving of alms.

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