CO129-448 - Governor Sir May - 1918 [4-6] — Page 491

.i

!

4

-2-

488

principal Ordinance, and which applied only to that section. A

reference to piers has been added. The comppand-term thoroughfare

or public place has been abandoned for the simple term public place.

4

A considerable part of section 3 of the bill is concerned

with a re-arrangement of the wording of section 3 of the principal

Ordinance on account of the employment of this new term "public

place".

In any case, the former terminology was inexact and

it seems to have been varied unnecessarily throughout the section.

5.

Sine

Paragraph (a) of section 3 alters the penalty under section 3

of the principal Ordinance from $50 to $250. The latter penalty seems by no means excessive for dae of the offences contemplated by the section, and it is the general pecuniary penalty provided by section 80 of the Magistrates Ordinance, 1890, as amended by section 5 of Ordinance 29 of 1915, and provided by section 6 of the latter

Ordinance.

6.

Paragraph (c) (ii) of section 3 extends to the whole Colony the provisions for the protection of wells and water courses which at present apply only to the City of Victoria and to streams used

for watering ships.

7.

Paragraph (e) of section 3 repeals certain particular words which might be regarded as limiting the general words of paragraph

On the other hand it (3) of section 3 of the principal Ordinance. inserts words which recognise the defence of lawful authority.

8.

Paragraph (m) of section 3 extende paragraph (13) of section

The paragraph 3 of the principal Ordinance to negligenté acts. refers to discharge of firearms and missiles, eto.

9.

Paragraph (n) of section 3 makes it an offence to loiter in a public place so as to obstruct the same or create a noisy assembly

therein.