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VAGRANCY ACT 1824 - SECT 4

4. Every person

(a) pretending or professing to tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft,
means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose on any of
His Majesty's subjects; or

(b) wandering abroad and lodging in any barn or outhouse, or in any deserted
or unoccupied building, or in the open air, or under a tent, or in any cart or
waggon, not having any visible means of subsistence, and not giving a good
account of himself; or

(c)wilfully exposing to view in any street, road, highway, or public place, or
in any place to which the public have or are permitted to have access, or in
the window or other part of any shop or other building situate in any street,
road, highway or public place, any obscene print, picture, or other indecent
exhibition; or

(d)wilfully, openly, lewdly, and obscenely exposing his person with intent to
insult any female; or

(e) wandering abroad, and endeavouring by the exposure of wounds or
deformities to obtain or gather alms; or

(f) going about as a gatherer or collector of alms, or endeavouring to procure
charitable contributions of any nature or kind, under any false or fraudulent
pretence; or

Para.(g) rep. by 1968 c.28 (NI) s.16 sch.4

(h)playing or betting by way of wagering or gaming in any street, road,
highway or other public place or in any place to which the public have or are
permitted to have access, at or with any table or instrument of gaming or any
coin, card, token or other article used as an instrument or means of such
wagering or gaming at any game or pretended game of chance; or

<[(i)being armed with any dangerous or offensive weapon, or having upon him any instrument, with intent to commit any arrestable offence; or]


(j) being found in or upon [any building or structure, whether permanent or
not, or any vehicle or caravan or movable dwelling, or in any premises or
place owned or occupied by any other person], for any unlawful purpose; or

(k) who is a suspected person or reputed thief, frequenting or loitering about
any river, canal, or navigable stream, dock, or basin, or any quay, wharf, or
warehouse near or adjoining thereto, or any street, highway, or avenue leading
thereto, or any place of public resort, or any avenue leading thereto, or any
street, or any highway, or any place adjacent to a street or highway, with
intent to commit [an arrestable offence];





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