s.12Penalties on neglecting to maintain wife and children or abandoning them
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Section 12Part 2 — Duty to Maintain

Penalties on neglecting to maintain wife and children or abandoning them

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Every person who, by work or other means, is able to maintain himself and his wife and children, and who refuses or neglects so to do, and every person who wilfully abandons his wife or children, whereby such wife or children shall be left destitute, or dependent for support upon public or private charity, and every person who having had an order made against him under this Law, departs from his usual place of abode and thereby evades compliance with the said order, shall be deemed to be a rogue and vagabond, and, on summary conviction, for the first offence liable to imprisonment for thirty days, and for a second or subsequent offence liable to imprisonment for three months.

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