27. Unlicensed hawkers
Feedback & supportEvery hawker wandering abroad and trading without being duly licensed or otherwise authorized by law;
Prostitutes
every prostitute behaving in a disorderly or indecent manner in or near any public road or in any place of public resort;
public road
“public road” includes every road, street, bridge, passage, footway or square over which the public have a right of way; and the expression “in or near any public road” includes all places in the public road and all places within ten yards of it not being effectually separated from and hidden from the road by a wall or otherwise;
Beggars
every person begging in a public place, or in a place to which the public are admitted without payment or on payment, or using in any such place conduct calculated to induce the giving of alms (whether or not there is any pretence of singing, playing, performing, offering anything for sale or otherwise), and having or able to have other lawful means of livelihood;
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Minor Offences
every person resorting to begging within two years of having been an inmate in a welfare home under the Destitute
Persons Act 1977 [Act 183], shall be deemed to be an idle and disorderly person and shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month or to both.