Section 27

Every 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;

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.

Licensing of hawkers 27A. (1) The Ruler or Yang di-Pertua Negeri, as the case may be, may make rules providing for the licensing of hawkers or of any class or classes of hawkers in any area in such State:

Provided that a hawker who is licensed or required to be licensed upon the payment of a fee under any other written law in force in such State shall not be required to be licensed under any rule made pursuant to the provisions of this subsection.

The Ruler or Yang di-Pertua Negeri, as the case may be, may, by rules made under this section, prescribe the fees which may be charged for any licence issued.

Rules made under this section or any by-laws made by a local authority under any written law shall provide that a hawker’s licence shall not be granted to any person (otherwise than by way of renewal of a licence for the year immediately preceding or for the sale of fresh food or drink only) except upon the production by such person of a certificate signed by a police officer of or above the rank of Assistant Superintendent, or by the

Officer in Charge of a Police District, certifying that such person is of good character and a proper person to be licensed as a hawker.

Before issuing a certificate to any persons under the preceding paragraph, a police officer of or above the rank of Assistant

Superintendent, or the Officer in Charge of a Police District, may require such person to provide his photograph in duplicate and to submit to all such steps as may be reasonably necessary for the taking and recording of his finger-prints.

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ROGUES AND VAGABONDS