Miscellaneous Offences (Public Order and Nuisance) Act

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3 Verandah public roads

4 Offences how punishable

6 Burning material or discharging firearm in public road

7 Duty of police officers as to dangerous animals

8 Dog running at persons, etc.

9 Ferocious dog at large

10 Liability of dog owner

12 Offences relating to animals

13 Other offences relating to public road

13A Intentional harassment, alarm or distress

13B Harassment, alarm or distress

13C Fear or provocation of violence

13D Threatening, abusing or insulting public servant

14A Making of harassing or obscene telephone calls to emergency telephone numbers

14B Liability of subscriber

14C Furnishing of information

15 Relief for occupier of premises from nuisance

16 Obstruction in canals, etc.

17 Penalty for depositing corpse or dying person

18 Drunkenness in public places

19 Soliciting in public place

20 Riotous, disorderly or indecent behaviour in, or in the immediate vicinity of, certain places

21 Wilful trespass on property

22 Possession of housebreaking implements or offensive weapons

22A Carrying truncheons, etc., in public places

23 Penalty for taking intoxicant, etc., into public hospital

24 Improper management of house of public resort

25 Interpretation of this Part

26 Disorderly or indecent behaviour by prostitutes

27 Rogues and vagabonds

27A Appearing nude in public or private place

28 Any person may arrest offender

29 Search of conveyance or goods of person arrested

30 Search of premises for idle and disorderly person and rogue and vagabond

31 Magistrate may take recognizances for good behaviour in certain cases

32 Touting for business

33 Touting in public offices

35 Fraudulent possession of property

36 Secondhand dealers and money-changers to report property stolen or fraudulently obtained

37 Melting or defacing metals, etc., within 3 days of receipt

38 Register of workers and dealers in metals

39 Employees not affected

Excessive noise

14.—(1) Any person who makes any noise by any instrument or other means in such a manner as to cause or be likely to cause annoyance or inconvenience to the occupier of any premises in the vicinity or to any person lawfully using any public road or in any public place shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding $1,000.

[10/89]

(2) Any police officer, on any complaint that any person in any premises or in any public place is making such noise as to cause annoyance or inconvenience to the complainant, may enter upon the premises or proceed to the public place and, after warning the person reasonably suspected of making the noise, stop the making of such noise whether by the removal of any instrument or object or in some other appropriate manner.

[10/89; 12/96]

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