In Great Britain, when you sleep on the road or odor, they provide you a 3,000 euro superb | EUROtoday

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Some legal guidelines have sudden, unintended, and sometimes even undesirable penalties. Two legal guidelines are making headlines in Great Britain lately, one proposed by London and one authorized by the autonomous authorities of Edinburgh, that are inflicting nice controversy.

The English controversy considerations the Conservative Government's try to replace the traditional “vagrancy law”, which dates again to 1824, with new laws, the Criminal Justice Bill, aimed toward eliminating “nuisance begging”.

The homeless who’re more and more quite a few on the streets of English cities – the variety of homeless individuals has elevated by 27% to three,900 within the final yr – if thought-about “nuisance” (“a nuisance”) may very well be fined as much as 2,500 kilos, nearly 3 thousand euros. Sleeping in a hallway and even “smelling excessively” may develop into crimes.

The invoice has attracted criticism not solely from the opposition and dozens of charities and associations that take care of the homeless, but additionally from round forty conservative MPs, who’ve expressed doubts each on the morality of the legislation and on the logic of fining individuals who presumably, in the event that they sleep on the streets, wouldn’t have a lot money obtainable.