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CurrentLoitering in street or public place
Part 4Enforcement and offences
26 Loitering in street or public place
If any member of the Police Force has reasonable grounds for suspecting that a person is standing or loitering in any street or public place for the purpose of, or with the intention of, betting contrary to this Act, the person shall, whether or not such standing or loitering causes, or tends to cause, an obstruction to traffic in that street or public place, not refuse or neglect to move on when requested by that member of the Police Force so to do.
Penalty: a fine of $2 000.
[Section 26 inserted: No. 63 of 1995 s. 70; amended: No. 41 of 2018 s. 15(3); No. 53 of 2024 s. 23.]
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