Section 196: Begging
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196. Begging
(1) Toute personne qui aura été (1) Any person found begging,
trouvée mendiant, s’il existe une shall, if an asylum or work house is
maison de refuge et de travail, sera available be punished by imprisonpunie de 6 mois d’emprisonnement. ment for 6 months.
(2) S’il n’existe pas de tel éta- (2) Where there is no such estabblissement, les mendiants valides lishment, able-bodied beggars shall
seront punis d’une peine d’emprison- be punished by imprisonment for one
nement d’un mois. month.
(3) Any person referred to in subsection (1) or (2) may, instead of being
sentenced to imprisonment, be ordered to pay a fine not exceeding
2,000 rupees.
[S. 196 amended by Act 29 of 1990; s. 8 of Act 36 of 2008 w.e.f. 6 December 2008.]
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