PUBLIC PLACES REGULATION ORDINANCE, 1870

PUBLIC PLACES REGULATION ORDINANCE, 1870

No. 2 of 1870.

An Ordinance for enabling the Governor in Council to
make regulations for the maintenance of good order
and the protection of property in punlic buildings,
gardens and other places.
[Preamble, rep. No. 62 of 1911.] [19th Aug., 1870.]

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Places
Regulation Ordinance, 1870.

2. It shall be lawful for the governor in Council to make
regulations for the maintenance of good order, and the
preservation of property in any public place.

3. Without prejudice to the generality of section 2, it
shall be lawful for the governor in Council to declare any
building or area to be a public place for the purposes of this
Ordinance, and to define the boundaries of any such building
or area.

4. A copy of all regulations relating to any public
place shall be exhibited at the entrance thereof or in some
conspicuous place within the same.

5.-(1) It shall be lawful for any constable, and also for
any custodian, watchman, keeper, or other person employed
by the Government in any public place to arrest any person
who commits a breach of any regulation relating to such
public place, and to take such peson before a magistrate to
be dealt with according to klaw, or else to eject and remove
therefrom any person who is found committing therein a
breach of any of the said regulations or any offence punishable
by law, after having been previously warned to desist.

(2) Every peson who uses abusive language to, or
assaults, or uses any violence towards, any such constable
or other person while in the execution of his duty or of the
powers vested in him under this Ordinance, shall upon
summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceding one
hundred dollars, and to imprisonment for any term not
exceeding three months.

6.-(1) Every person who is charged by any such
constable, custodian; watchman, keeper, or other person its
aforesaid with committing or with having committed in any

* As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1923.
+ As amended by No, 16 of 1923,
public place a breach of any of the regulations relating to
such public place or any offence punishable by law, and who
refuses to give, his name, and address if called upon to do so,
shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not
exceeding ten dollars, in addition to any punishment to which
he may be liable for the offence with which he is charged
and whether he is found guilty of such offence or not.

(2) If any such person refuses to give his name, it shall
be lawful to proceed against him summarily by a description
of his person and the offence only, without adding any zn
name or designation.

7. Every person who commits a breach of any of the said
regulations shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall upon
summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding
twenty-five dollars, and to imprisonment for my term not
exceeding one, month.

[s.8, rep. No. 16 of 1923.]

9. It shall be lawful for the Governor to authorise the
temporary closing or enclosure of the whole or any portion of
any public place for any period not exceeding seven consecu-
tive days for the purposes of exhibitions, lectures, concerts,
athletic contests, amateur performances, bazaars or sales of
work, or for any other purposes of a scientific, educational,
charitable, or social nature, and to authorise any society, club,
committee, corporation, or person to grant admission to the
place or portion thereof so closed or enclosed, by ticket or
otherwise on payment of such sum of money as the Governor
may approvpor without payment, and any moneys, received
for such admission may be applied for siieh purposes as the
Governor may approve.
[Originally No. 8 of 1870. No. 16 of 1923. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Regulations relating to public places. Governor in Council may declare any building or area to be a public place. Exhibition of regulations. Removal of person found committing breach of regulations after warning. Refusal of person committing breach of regulations to give name and address. Penalty for breach of regulations. Use of public places for exhibitions, concerts, bazaars, etc., moneys being charged for admission. [cf. No. 4 of 1898, and No. 35 of 1909.]

[Originally No. 8 of 1870. No. 16 of 1923. Law Rev. Ord., 1924.] Short title. Regulations relating to public places. Governor in Council may declare any building or area to be a public place. Exhibition of regulations. Removal of person found committing breach of regulations after warning. Refusal of person committing breach of regulations to give name and address. Penalty for breach of regulations. Use of public places for exhibitions, concerts, bazaars, etc., moneys being charged for admission. [cf. No. 4 of 1898, and No. 35 of 1909.]

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