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228 PDFTitle:SUMMARY OFFENCES ORDINANCEGazette Number:
Section:26BHeading:Punishment of person asking alms in threatening manner, etc.Version Date:30/06/1997

Any person who asks for alms in a threatening or insolent manner, or continues to ask for alms of any person after he has been required to desist, commits an offence and is liable on conviction-

        (a) for a first or second offence, to imprisonment for 3 months; and
        (b) for a third of subsequent offence, to imprisonment for 18 months.
(Added 70 of 1977 s. 3)