Housing Act 1988

Amendment of Vagrancy Act, 1824.

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28.The Vagrancy Act, 1824 (as applied to Ireland by section 15 of the Prevention of Crimes Act, 1871) is hereby amended by the deletion in section IV of the following words “every person wandering abroad and lodging in any barn or outhouse, or in any deserted or unoccupied building, or in the open air, or under a tent, or in any cart or waggon, not having any visible means of subsistence, and not giving a good account of himself or herself;”.