SUMMARY OFFENCES.
No. 1 of 1845.
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(2) In this section "building" includes any shop, outhouse, shed, or roof.
10. Mendicancy in the public highways or streets is hereby forbidden.
11. Every person who violates, disobeys, or fails to comply with any of the provisions—
(a) of section 9, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, besides the expenses of removing the building or thing occupied or erected;
(b) of section 10, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding five dollars.
11A. (1) Every female who, being in any public place, or on any verandah or at any window or doorway over or opening on to any public place, solicits persons for the purpose of prostitution shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars.
(2) It shall be lawful for any constable to take into custody without warrant any female whom he shall find in any public place offending against the provisions of this section.
12.—(1) No person shall utter any shouts or cries or make other noises while playing the game known as "Chai-Mui" within the hours prescribed for any district or place by regulation of the Governor in Council.
(2) Every person who contravenes the provisions of this section shall be liable to a fine not exceeding ten dollars: Provided that where such contravention takes place in any brothel, restaurant or common lodging-house, the keeper, mistress, or other person having or appearing to have the care or management thereof, either alone or with others, shall be liable to the same penalty.
13.—(1) No person shall, between sunset and the hour of six in the following morning, make or cause or permit to be made or caused any noise whatsoever calculated to disturb or interfere with the public tranquillity or calculated to disturb or annoy any person.
As amended by No. 6 of 1918 and Law Am. Ord., 1923. As amended by No. 1 of 1913 and Law Am. Ord., 1923.