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22. Every person found committing any offence punish- Fower to able under this Ordinance may be apprehended by the in certain owner of the property on or with respect to which the offence cases, is committed, or by his servant or any person authorised by him, and may be detained until he can be delivered into the custody of an oflicer of police to be dealt with according to law.
ness.
23.-(1) Every person shall be liable to a fine not exceɔ]- Drunken- ing twenty-five dollars who is found drunk in any public place or on any premises licensed under any Ordinance relating to liquor licences.
(2) Every person shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two months who while drunk behaves in a riotous or disorderly manner in any public place.
(3) Every person shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding two months who is found drunk while in charge of any vehicle (other than a motor vehicle), or of any horse, in any public road or street.
(4) Every person shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months who is found drunk while driving or being otherwise in charge of any motor vehicle.
(5) For the purposes for sub-sections (3) and (4) a person shall be deemed to have been drunk if he was so much under the influence of alcohol as to have lost control of his faculties to such an extent as to render him unable to execute safely the occupation on which he was engaged at the time in question.
(6) Every person shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding six months who is found drunk while in possession of any loaded firearm or of any firearm and any ammunition therefor. For the purposes of this sub-section a person shall be deemed to have been drunk if he was so much under the influence of alcohol as to have lost control of his faculties to such an extent as to render him unable to handle a firearm safely at the time in question.
suspected
stolen
24. Every person who is brought before a magistrate Persons charged with having in his possession or conveying in any of having manner anything which may be reasonably suspected of or conveying having been stolen or unlawfully obtained, and who does not property. give an account, to the satisfaction of the magistrate, how he 2 & 3 Vict. came by the same, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding two c. 71, s. 24. hundred and fifty dollars or to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.
25. Where any offence under paragraphs (1), (3), (13) or (14) of section 3 is committed at, on or from any pre- mises, the person in actual occupation of such premises shall be liable to the same penalty as the actual offender, unless the actual offender shall first have been prosecuted to conviction Provided that if a dwelling-house is let out in flats nothing in this section shall have the effect of imposing liability on any person other that the occupier of the flat at, on or from which the offence was committed.
Liability of
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the case of certain
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