Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 3:37 pm on 25 June 1991.
Mr Kenneth Hargreaves
, Hyndburn
3:37,
25 June 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.]
