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LKA-1907-L-110646
Breadcrumb
Title_of_text
Houses of Detention Ordinance (Cap. 33).
Main Region
First Region
Country(ies)
Sri Lanka
Subjects (Classification)
Criminal and penal law; Human rights
Adopted on (Date of text)
1907-05-20
Scope of text
National
Type of legislation (Type of text)
Law, Act
Second Region
Abstract/Citation
This Ordinance provides for the establishment of Houses of Detention for vagrants and makes it lawful to detain homeless people or those that are deemed to be "vagrants" under the law.
Related Text region
Related text(s)
1842-01-01 (LKA-1842-L-110647)
Vagrants Ordinance (Cap. 32).
Electronic region
Electronic source title
Legislation on-line
Author
University of Minnesota Human Rights Library, United States of America
URL
http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/
File
LKA110646.pdf (PDF)