Part 3: Public order Section 81: Repeal of the Vagrancy Act 1824 etc
Subsection (1) repeals the Vagrancy Act 1824. Much of the Vagrancy Act 1824 has already been repealed but substantive provisions remain in sections 3 and 4. Section 3 criminalises begging ("[every person wandering abroad, or placing himself or herself in any public place, street, highway, court, or passage, to beg or gather alms, or causing or procuring or encouraging any child or children so to do…") and section 4 (‘Persons committing certain offences to be deemed rogues and vagabonds’) creates a range of offences including persons who sleep in the open air, or in any deserted or unoccupied building.
	Subsections (3) to (7) make consequential amendments and repeals to other enactments.
	Subsection (8) provides that the amendments and repeals made by this section do not apply to an offence committed before this section comes into force.