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560.   Vagrant or idle or disorderly person

Revised Laws of Saint Lucia (2022)

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560.   Vagrant or idle or disorderly person

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    (1)   A person who—

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      (a)     wanders around, or places himself or herself in any public way or public place, to solicit alms, or causes, procures, or encourages any child to do so;

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      (b)     enters, or is seen, or is found on or within any land or premises whether enclosed or not, without the leave of the owner, occupier, or person in charge thereof, and does not give a good account of himself or herself, or satisfy the Court that he or she has a right to be on the land or premises;

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      (c)     is an inmate of a disorderly house, brothel, or house of ill-repute, or house for the resort of prostitutes, or a keeper of a disorderly house, or house for the resort of prostitutes;

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      (d)     is in the habit of frequenting such houses or places and does not give a satisfactory account of himself or herself;

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      (e)     being able by labour or other lawful means to maintain himself or herself, or his wife or child, or her child, where such wife or child is without other means of support, refuses or neglects so to do;

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      (f)     not having any visible means of maintaining himself or herself, lives without employment;

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      (g)     being a common prostitute or night walker, wanders in public streets or highways, lanes or places of public meeting or gathering of people or other public place and does not give a satisfactory account of herself;

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      (h)     having no profession or calling by which to maintain himself or herself for the most part supports himself or herself by crime,

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    is a vagrant or idle or disorderly person, and is liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for one month.

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    (2)   A Court may convict the offender to an extra mural order in accordance with this Code.

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