Section 249: Idle and disorderly persons

The following persons‐
(a) every common prostitute‐
(i) behaving in a disorderly or indecent manner in any public place;
(ii) loitering and persistently importuning or soliciting persons for the purpose of
prostitution;
(b) every person wandering or placing himself in any public place to beg or gather
alms, or causing or procuring or encouraging any child or children so to do;
(c) every person playing at any game of chance for money or money's worth in any
public place; and
(d) every person who, in any public place, conducts himself in a manner likely to cause
a breach of the peace,
shall be deemed idle and disorderly persons and may be arrested without warrant, and
are guilty of a simple offence and liable to imprisonment for one month.