Penal Servitude Act 1891

7Amendment of 5 Geo.4 c.83 and 34 & 35 Vict. c.112 s.15 as to rogues and vagabonds

Section four of the Act passed in the fifth year of the reign of King George the Fourth, chapter eighty-three, intituled " An " Act for the punishment of idle and disorderly persons and rogues " and vagabonds in that part of Great Britain called England," as amended by section fifteen of the Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871, shall be read and construed as if the provisions applying to suspected persons and reputed thieves frequenting the places and with the intent therein described, applied also to every suspected person or reputed thief loitering about or in any of the said places and with the said intent.