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Sat 01 Jan 2010New Bill would ban begging near ATMs
BEGGING WILL be prohibited within 10m of ATM cash-dispensing machines under the terms of proposed new legislation published yesterday by Minister for Justice Dermot Ahern.
The Criminal Justice (Public Order) Bill 2010 comes in the wake of a High Court judgment that the current law, dating from 1847, is unconstitutional.
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