Reservation
10. (1) The Council may set aside for the sole use of swimmers of areas for the whole or any part of the waters adjacent to any bathing beach,
swimmers.
Proteculoa
of areas sat aside for
swidrymers.
Mogic and singing.
Public
meetings and assemblics.
Begging for alms.
General conduct.
(2) Where any waters are set aside under the provisions of paragraph (1), the Council shall cause the area so set aside to be demarcated in such suitable manner as, in the opinion of the Council will best draw thereto the attention of persons using the beach:
Provided that, where the whole of the waters adjacent to any beach are so set aside, it shall be sufficient to post a notice to that effect in any conspicuous place upon the beach,
11. (1) Save with the permission in writing of the Council or the Director of Urban Services. no person shall, without reasonable caus or excuse, bring into or use in, or cause or suffer to be brought into pr used in, any part of the waters adjacent to any bathing beach set aside for the use of swimmers under the provisions of paragraph (1) of by-law 10, any vessel, boat, canoe or similar craft or any surf board or water skis.
(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) shall be construed to include inflatable rubber dinghies or other inflatable articles unless the same are propelled by motors, sails, oars, paddles or polés.
12. Save where the Council has, in writing, permitted the operation or playing of, or the making of any sounds by means of, any such instrument or the singing of any song, no person shall, on any bathing beach, to the annoyance of any person using the beach, operate, play, or make any sounds by means of, any musical or other instrument. including any gramophone or radio apparatus, or sing any song.
13. Save with the permission in writing of the Council, no person shall, on any bathing beach, deliver, utter or read to the public any speech, lecture. prayer. scripture or sermon, or enter into any public discussion, or hold or cause to be held, or take part in. any public meeting or procession.
14. No person shall beg for or gather alms, or, for the purpose gathering alms, expose or exhibit any sores, wounds or bodily ailment. or deformity, at any bathing beach.
15. No person shall, on any bathing beach-
(a) spit:
(b) use obscene language:
(c) indecently expose his person:
(d) conduct himself otherwise than in a peaceful, decent and
orderly manner;
(e) leave any litter, paper or rubbish (save in containers provided
for such purpose by the Council);
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(f) wilfully throw or deposit any glass, china or tin, or any oyster or other shell, or any sharp or injurious article or substance likely to cause injury to persons using the beach; or
(g) sort rags, bones, refuse or any like matter.
16. Any person who-
(a) contravenes any of the provisions of by-law 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, 13, 14 or 15 or of paragraph (1) of by-law 9 or paragraph (1) of by-law 11; or
(6) without reasonable excuse, fails to comply with any of the requirements of a notice posted under the provisions of para- graph (2) of by-law 4.
shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a line of five hundred dollars and to imprisonment for fourteen days. and, where the offence is a continuing offence, shall be liable in addition to a fins of ten dollars for each day during which it is proved to the satisfaction of the court that the offence has continued.
Offences and penaltics.
17. Without prejudice to the provisions of any other enactment Name in relating to the prosecution of criminal offences and without prejudice which to the powers of the Attorney General in relation to the prosecution for offences
proceedings
of such offences, prosecutions for an offence under any of the provisions may be
of these by-laws may be brought in the name of the Council,
1960.
Made by the Urban Council this 2nd day of August, 1960.
brought.
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Seabert
Approved by the Legislative Council this 21st day of September.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
21st September, 1960.
Deputy Clerk of Councils.
Explanatory Note.
(This Note is not part of the by-laws, but is intended to Indicate their general purport).
These by-laws replace, with amendment, those regulations contained in the Second Schedule to the Pleasure Grounds and Bathing Places Regulation Ordinance, 1936 which relate to beaches in the urban areas. These By-laws reenact the existing regulations and also contain certain new provisions for the better control of the use of the beaches. The new provisions are to be found In by-laws 4, 5, 8, 12, 13 and 14.
2. A Comparative Table is annexed to this Note,
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