AMMAN — The
Lower House approved on
Tuesday the Penal Code article related to begging, which says: “A penalty of
imprisonment for a period of not less than three months and not exceeding a
year shall be inflicted on anyone who: gives or asks for charity from people by
displaying wounds or a disability, or faking them, or by any other means,
whether wandering or sitting in a public place, or was found driving a minor
under sixteen years of age to beg and collect alms, or encourages the minor to
do so.
اضافة اعلان
“Or anyone who displays, with the intent of begging,
goods or show games or other acts that are not suitable, by themselves, as a
serious source of livelihood, or uses any other fraudulent means to elicit
public sympathy with the intent of begging, or is found collecting alms or
charitable donations based on a false allegation,” Al-Ghad News reported.
The article also
states that “the seized funds, things and tools shall be confiscated from
whoever is found committing any of the acts stipulated in this article, and the
court shall order that they be handed over to the Ministry of Social
Development to spend on bodies and institutions concerned with beggars.
“Mitigating reasons may be used, and the
Ministry of Social Development is obliged to include in its report evidence that such acts
are repeated, and that without prejudice to any more severe penalty stipulated
in any other legislation, whoever forces others to commit any of the acts
stipulated in the Paragraph 1 of this article shall be imprisoned for a period
of no less than two years.
“The Minister of Social Development may assign one
or more employees to investigate the crimes mentioned in this article, arrest
the perpetrators, and refer them to the competent judicial authorities.”
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