Punjab Vagrancy Ordinance 1958 Salient features Vagrant means

Punjab Vagrancy Ordinance, 1958 Salient features

• Vagrant means a person who receives alms in a public place, he allows himself to be used as an exhibit for the purpose of soliciting or receiving alms. • Who enters in any private premises without the invitation of the occupier for the purpose of soliciting or receiving alms. • Government of the Punjab has passed an ordinance for the detention, training, employment and maintenance of vagrants and their dependents. • Government shall establish and maintain welfare homes. • The manager of welfare homes shall keep all the classes of vagrants separately of children, females, lappers, infirm, old and able bodied.

• District magistrate refers such persons to welfare homes. • Any police officer, not below the rank of sub inspector may without an order from a magistrate and without a warrant, arrest and reach any person who appears to him to be a vagrant. • Such vagrant shall be punished for three years. • The controller or any other officer transfers a vagrant from one welfare home to another. • If the controller is satisfied that a vagrant can earn sufficient to support himself the he can discharge the vagrants from the welfare homes.

• Or if a relative of such vagrant or a person interested in the welfare of the vagrant enters into a bond with or without sureties to look after and maintain such vagrants to prevent him from vagrancy.