Miscellaneous Offences Act (Formerly Known as Minor Offences Act) · s 26

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26.
Fortune-telling and other forms of vagrancy
(1) Any person who —
(a) pretends or professes to tell fortunes, or uses any subtle craft, means or device by palmistry, divination, sortilege, or otherwise to deceive and impose on any one;
(b) lodges in any shed or out-house without the permission of the owner thereof, or in any deserted or unoccupied building, or in the open air, or under a tent, or in or under any cart or wagon or other similar shelter, not having any visible means of subsistence and not giving a good account of himself;
(c) begs for alms or endeavours by the exposure of wounds, sores, diseases of deformities to obtain alms;

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(d) endeavours under any false or fraudulent pretence to procure charitable contributions of any kind; or
(e) not being physically able to earn or being unwilling to work for his own livelihood and having no visible means of subsistence, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $500 or imprisonment for 2 months, and may be repatriated, and on a second or subsequent conviction to a fine of $500 and imprisonment for 4 months.
(2) The court may order to be forfeited any book or other article used as an implement of fortune-telling.

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s 26Fortune-telling and other forms of vagrancy

(1)

Any person who —

(a)

pretends or professes to tell fortunes, or uses any subtle craft, means or device by palmistry, divination, sortilege, or otherwise to deceive and impose on any one;

(b)

lodges in any shed or out-house without the permission of the owner thereof, or in any deserted or unoccupied building, or in the open air, or under a tent, or in or under any cart or wagon or other similar shelter, not having any visible means of subsistence and not giving a good account of himself;

(c)

begs for alms or endeavours by the exposure of wounds, sores, diseases of deformities to obtain alms;

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(d)

endeavours under any false or fraudulent pretence to procure charitable contributions of any kind; or

(e)

not being physically able to earn or being unwilling to work for his own livelihood and having no visible means of subsistence, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $500 or imprisonment for 2 months, and may be repatriated, and on a second or subsequent conviction to a fine of $500 and imprisonment for 4 months.

(2)

The court may order to be forfeited any book or other article used as an implement of fortune-telling.