The Guides' (Prohibition) * Ordinance

5 of 1917. Cap. 72] Guides' Prohibition CHAPTER 72. GUIDES' PROHIBITION. ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS. SECTION.

(2) Proviso as to second or more offences.

CHAPTER 72. GUIDES' PROHIBITION. An Ordinance to prohibit persons acting as guides within the City of Freetown. [20TH DECEMBER, 1917]. 1. Short title. This Ordinance may be cited as the Guides' (Prohibition) * Ordinance, and shall extend to the City of Freetown (and to any other place to which the Governor in Council may by Order apply it). Interpreta- 2. In this Ordinance: tion. Prohibition of g11ides. " guide " means and includes any person who acts as a guide, conductor, leader, or tout, or in any similar capacity, for any other person, either for payment or other reward of any kind whatsoever; " parent " means and includes any parent or guardian (whether legal or customary) or any person acting in loco parentis to another person; "master" includes any employer. 3. Every person wandering, loitering or being in the public streets, public highways, or in any place of public or private resort or otherwise, for the purpose of acting, or being employed *Not yet applied to any place other than Freetown. Guides' Prohibition [Cap. 72 to act as a guide within the City of Freetown (or any place to which this Ordinance shall be applied) shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance and shall be liable on conviction to a :fine not exceeding ten pounds, or in the case of a second or subsequent offence, to be imprisoned for a term not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour, or to a fine not exceeding ten pounds, or to both imprisonment and fine as in this section provided: Provided that if such person be under the age of sixteen years he shall be liable to a whipping, or in the case of a second or subsequent offence to a whipping in addition either to such imprisonment, or to such fine, as in this section provided. 4. Every person who accosts, importunes, or otherwise addresses any other person with a view to acting, or being employed to act, as a guide shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds, or in the case of a second or subsequent offence to be imprisoned for a terro not exceeding six months, with or without hard labour, or to a :fine not exceeding twenty pounds, or to both imprisonment and fine as in this section provided: Provided that if such person be under the age of sixteen years he shall be liable to a whipping; or in the case of a second or subsequent offence to a whipping in addition either to such fine or imprisonment as in this section provided. 5. (I) Any parent or roaster who shall incite, induce, permit, or assist, or who shall attempt to incite, induce, assist, or in any manner whatsoever obtain or attempt to obtain any person to act as guide, shall be guilty of an offence against this Ordinance and shall be liable on conviction to be imprisoned for a period not exceeding twelve months, with or without hard labour, or to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, or to both imprisonment and fine as herein provided: (2) Provided that if any such parent or master shall be brought before the Court for a second or further offence against this Ordinance he shall be liable to be committed to the Supreme Court for trial and, on conviction, shall be liable to be imprisoned for a period not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, or to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to both such imprisonment and fine as herein provided. 6. Except as provided in sub-section (2) of section 5, all offences against this Ordinance shall be tried in a summary Court. · Accosting, etc., with a vie'v to employment as a guide. Parent or master inciting, etc., others to act as guide, etc. Proviso as to second or more offences. Summary offences. Use of money found on person convicted for payment of costs. Grant of licences to guides. Rules. Cap. 72] Guides' Prohibition 7. (I) The Court rna y order any money found in the possession of any person (other than any parent or master) convicted of an offence under this Ordinance, to be applied in or towards the payment of any costs or expenses connected with the trial or punishment of such person. (2) vVhere any parent or master shall be convicted of an offence against this Ordinance, the Court may order such parent or master to pay the whole or any part of the costs or expenses in connection with the trial or punishment of himself and of any person convicted in connection with the offence of which such parent or master shall have been convicted, and such sum as the Court shall order shall be leviable by execution or otherwise as the Court may order. Any amount ordered by the Court to be paid by any person under the provisions of this section rna y be in addition to, or in substitution for, any other pecuniary penalty provided by this Ordinance. 8. It shall be lawful for the Governor, from time to time as he shall deem necessary or expedient, to authorise the grant of licences, with or without conditions, to approved persons to act as guides. No person acting within the scope of any such licence shall be deemed to have committed an offence under the provisions of this Ordinance. 9. The Governor in Council may make rules with regard to the following matters- (a) the registration, number and duration of licences to be granted and their forfeiture; (b) the class or classes of persons to whom licences may be granted; (c) the fee payable for the grant of such licences: Provided that the fee payable on any one licence shall not exceed the sum of five shillings per annum, or in like proportion for any licence issued for a less period than one year; (d) the conditions attaching to such licences; (e) generally for any matter not herein provided for in connection with the grant of licences and for the better carrying out of the provisions of this Ordinance. ....