The Short Title of this Act is “The Vagrant Act 1866 Amendment Act, 1882.”

Where any male person is accused or charged under subsection five of section four of “The Vagrant Act, 1866,” of or with wilfully and obscenely exposing his person in any street, road, or public highway, or in the view thereof, or in any place of public resort, such person shall be brought before a Resident Magistrate or two or more Justices of the Peace; and if such Resident Magistrate or Justices of the Peace, after hearing the primâ facie case against such person, be of opinion that such person, if proved guilty, can be sufficiently punished under the said “Vagrant Act, 1866,” the said Resident Magistrate or Justices may deal with the case summarily; but if such Resident Magistrate or Justices consider that the offence is one which, if proved, would be deserving of additional punishment, then the person so charged may be committed for trial as for an indictable offence, in the ordinary way, to the next sittings of the nearest Court of competent jurisdiction; and upon the conviction of such person before the said Court he may, in addition to the whole or any part of the punishment provided for under the said Act, be ordered to be once or twice privately whipped, subject to the following conditions:—