BE 10 CAP. 132] Pleasure Grounds (Urban Council) Bylaws

[Subsidiary]

30. Offences and penalties

Any person who-

(a) contravenes any of the provisions of bylaw 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14(1) or (3), 15, 16, 18(1) or (2), 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26, 27, 28, or 29; (L.N. 158 of 1975; L.N. 56 of 1977)

(b) when driving any vehicle in a pleasure ground, refuses or wilfully fails to stop when called upon to do so, by signal or otherwise, by any keeper or other public officer acting in the execution of his duty; or

(c) fails to comply with any of the requirements of any notice displayed under the provisions of bylaw 17 or 24,

shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of $500 and to imprisonment for 14 days.

31. Name in which proceedings for offences may be brought

Without prejudice to the provisions of any other enactment relating to the prosecution of criminal offences and without prejudice to the powers of the Attorney General in relation to the prosecution of such offences, prosecutions for an offence under any of the provisions of these bylaws may be brought in the name of the Council.

32. Power to remove persons contravening bylaws, etc.

Any person who, in any pleasure ground, contravenes any of the provisions of these bylaws or of any rule made under the provisions of section 110 of the Ordinance or the requirements of any notice displayed under the provisions of bylaw 17 or 24 may be removed therefrom by any keeper, or by any other public officer authorized in that behalf by the Council, in any of the following cases-

(a) where the contravention is committed within the view of such keeper or public officer, and the name and residence of such person are unknown to, or cannot readily be ascertained by, such keeper or public officers; and

(b) where the contravention is committed within the view of such keeper or public officer and, from the nature of the contravention or from any other fact of which such keeper or public officer may have knowledge or of which he may be credibly informed, such keeper or public officer has reasonable ground for believing that the continuance in the pleasure ground of such person may result in another such contravention or that the removal of such person from the pleasure ground is otherwise necessary for the proper regulation thereof.

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