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The European Vagrancy Act 1874, 9 of 1874, (Rep., Act 17 of 1949)

34 sections · As amended up to 2026-08

Sections

  1. 0Section 0
  2. 1The said C. D. shall proceed forthwith to the port of [the port of embarkation]
  3. 2The said C. D. shall there embark on board such ship and at such time as an officer appointed in this behalf by the Local Government shall direct
  4. 3The said C. D. shall remain on board such ship until she shall have arrived at her port of destination
  5. 5The said Secretary of State in Council shall defray the cost of the transit of the said C. D. to the
  6. 7All prosecutions under this Act may be instituted and conducted by such officer as the Local Government from time to time appoints in this behalf
  7. 8In imposing penalties under this Part and Part III of this Act, no person shall exceed the limits of
  8. 9No proceeding under this Act shall be deemed invalid by reason only that the Magistrate of Police or
  9. 10Power to invest certain officials with jurisdiction of Justices under sections 5, 7, 8 and 9
  10. 11The Local Government, with the previous sanction of the Governor General in Council, may provide wor
  11. 12Section 12
  12. 13Every such Governor may order that any vagrant admitted to the work-house under his charge shall be
  13. 14Vagrants admitted to work-houses under this Act shall be subject to such rules of management and dis
  14. 15The Governor and the Committee of Management (if any) of every such work-house shall use his and the
  15. 16Removal of vagrants
  16. 17Section 17
  17. 18The Local Government of the territories in which the said port is situate, may enter into such contr
  18. 19Any person refusing or failing to accompany a Police officer to, or to appear before, a Magistrate o
  19. 20Escaping from Police
  20. 21Failing to proceed to port of embarkation
  21. 22Any person returning to India within five years of the date of his embarkation pursuant to any agree
  22. 23Any person of European extraction found asking for alms when he has sufficient means of subsistence,
  23. 24Every person imprisoned under section nineteen, twenty, twenty-one, twenty-two or twenty-three, shal
  24. 25Penalty on shipmaster bringing European convicts to India
  25. 26All fines imposed under this Act may be recovered, if for offences committed outside the local limit
  26. 27All prosecutions under this Act may be instituted and conducted by such officer as the Local Government from time to time appoints in this behalf
  27. 28In imposing penalties under this Part and Part III of this Act, no person shall exceed the limits of
  28. 29No proceeding under this Act shall be deemed invalid by reason only that the Magistrate of Police or
  29. 30Deprivation of privileges of European British subjects under Criminal Procedure Code
  30. 31Liability of importers of Europeans or employers of soldiers becoming vagrants
  31. 32Liability of consignee in case of Europeans who arrive in charge of animals and become vagrants
  32. 33In any proceeding under this Part, a certified copy of the declaration recorded under section five,
  33. 34The powers and duties conferred and imposed by sections sixteen and eighteen, on a Local Government,
  34. 35Exercise in Native States of powers conferred on Magistrates, Justices and Police