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VAGRANCY (IRELAND) ACT 1847

VAGRANCY (IRELAND) ACT 1847 - LONG TITLE

An Act to make Provision for the Punishment of Vagrants and Persons
offending against the Laws in force for the Relief of the destitute
Poor in Ireland.{1}
[22nd July 1847]
Preamble

S.1 rep. by SLR 1875. S.2 rep. by 1948 c.13 (NI) s.30(2) sch.6;
1949 c.1 (NI) s.34(4) sch.2 Pt.II; 1950 c.5 (NI) s.141(1)

VAGRANCY (IRELAND) ACT 1847 - SECT 3
Punishment of persons wandering abroad, or begging in public places,
&c.

3. Every person wandering abroad and begging, or placing himself in
any public place, street, highway, court, or passage to beg or
gather alms, ... shall on conviction thereof before any justice of
the peace, if such justice shall think fit, be committed to
[prison] ... for any time not exceeding one calendar month.

VAGRANCY (IRELAND) ACT 1847 - SECT 4
Power to apprehend persons offending against this Act.

4. It shall be lawful for any person whatsoever to apprehend any
person whom he shall find offending against this Act, and to take
and convey such offender as soon as may be reasonably practicable
before any justice of the peace, to be dealt with as is
herein-before provided, or to deliver him to any constable or other
peace officer of the county or place wherein he shall have been
apprehended, to be so taken and conveyed as aforesaid; and it shall
be the duty of every constable or peace officer to take into his
custody every such offender so delivered to him, and to take and
convey such offender before a justice of the peace as soon as may
be reasonably practicable, to be dealt with as is directed by this
Act.

VAGRANCY (IRELAND) ACT 1847 - SECT 5
Warrants for apprehension of offenders.

5. It shall be lawful for any justice of the peace, upon proof
that any person hath committed any of the offences herein-before
mentioned, to issue his warrant to apprehend such offender, and to
bring him before the same or some other justice of the peace, to
be dealt with as is directed by this Act.

S.6 rep. by SLR 1892; SL(R) 1976. S.7 rep. by SLR 1892

VAGRANCY (IRELAND) ACT 1847 - SECT 8
Interpretation.

8. In the construction of this Act every word importing the
singular number or masculine gender only shall, except where the
context excludes such construction, be understood to include and
shall be applied to several persons, matters, or things as well as
one person, matter, or thing, and to females as well as males
respectively; and the word "justice" shall be understood to include
and extend to any justice of the peace or magistrate of a county,
county of a city, or county of a town, or of any city or town
corporate; and the word "constable" shall be understood to include
all chief and other constables and sub-constables appointed under any
Act relating to the constabulary force of Ireland....

S.9 rep. by SLR 1875