Act Info:
THE KARNATAKA PROHIBITION OF BEGGARY ACT, 1975
[Act, No. 27 of 1975]
[6th June 1975]
PREAMBLE
An Act to prohibit persons from resorting to begging and to provide for the detention, training and employment of beggars, for the custody, trial and punishment of beggar offenders and for the relief and rehabilitation of such persons in the State of Karnataka.
WHEREAS it is necessary and expedient to prohibit persons from resorting to begging and to provide for the detention, training and employment of beggars, for the custody, trial and punishment of beggar offenders and for the relief and rehabilitation of such persons in the State of Karnataka;
BE it enacted by the Karnataka State Legislature in the Twenty-sixth Year of the Republic of India as follows:-