Part of the debate – in the House of Commons am 3:37 pm ar 25 Mehefin 1991.
I beg to move,
That leave be given to bring in a Bill to repeal sections 3 and 4 of the Vagrancy Act 1824.
The history of the Vagrancy Act is a lengthy one. The mischief at which the Act was aimed was not begging per se but vagrancy as a way of life—[Interruption.]