1950_SUMMARY_OFFENCES_ORDINANCE — Page 3

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Summary Offences.

Nuisances, trespasses and similar offences.

[CAP. 228

3. Any person who without lawful authority or excuse-

(1) throws or lays, or causes or knowingly permits to be thrown or laid, any carrion, dirt, soil, straw or dung, or any other filth, rubbish or noisome or offensive matter whatsoever, on any public place, or on any Government property unless with the consent of a public officer, or on any private property unless with the consent of the owner and of the occupier (if any) of such private property; or into any well, stream, watercourse, ford or reservoir, or into any drain or sewer; or permits or suffers any such noisome or offensive substance as aforesaid to remain exposed in any drain, sewer or elsewhere, opposite to or in the immediate neighbourhood of his house; or allows any accumulation of filth or offensive substances within the premises occupied by him, or in any manner defiles or pollutes any well, stream or watercourse used by any of the inhabitants of the Colony or for the supplying with water of ships resorting thereto;

committed in public places, etc.

(2) in or into a public place or vehicle or ferry or any building to which the public have access, spits except into a receptacle or channel for sewage, sullage or waste water;

(3) obeys any call of nature in any public, exposed, or other improper place;

(4) sets out or leaves, or causes to be set out or left, any matter or thing which obstructs, incommodes or endangers, or may obstruct, incommode or endanger, any person or vehicle in any public place;

(5) causes any annoyance or obstruction in any public place-

(a) by exposing anything for sale in or upon, or so as to hang over, any street, road or footway, or on the outside of any house, shop or building; or

(b) by setting up or continuing any pole, blind, awning, line or other projection from any window, parapet or other part of any house, shop or building;

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Summary Offences. Nuisances, trespasses and similar offences. [CAP. 228 3. Any person who without lawful authority or excuse- (1) throws or lays, or causes or knowingly permits to be thrown or laid, any carrion, dirt, soil, straw or dung, or any other filth, rubbish or noisome or offensive matter whatsoever, on any public place, or on any Government property unless with the consent of a public officer, or on any private property unless with the consent of the owner and of the occupier (if any) of such private property; or into any well, stream, watercourse, ford or reservoir, or into any drain or sewer; or permits or suffers any such noisome or offensive substance as aforesaid to remain exposed in any drain, sewer or elsewhere, opposite to or in the immediate neighbourhood of his house; or allows any accumulation of filth or offensive substances within the premises occupied by him, or in any manner defiles or pollutes any well, stream or watercourse used by any of the inhabitants of the Colony or for the supplying with water of ships resorting thereto; committed in public places, etc. (2) in or into a public place or vehicle or ferry or any building to which the public have access, spits except into a receptacle or channel for sewage, sullage or waste water; (3) obeys any call of nature in any public, exposed, or other improper place; (4) sets out or leaves, or causes to be set out or left, any matter or thing which obstructs, incommodes or endangers, or may obstruct, incommode or endanger, any person or vehicle in any public place; (5) causes any annoyance or obstruction in any public place- (a) by exposing anything for sale in or upon, or so as to hang over, any street, road or footway, or on the outside of any house, shop or building; or (b) by setting up or continuing any pole, blind, awning, line or other projection from any window, parapet or other part of any house, shop or building; 307
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Summary Offences. Nuisances, trespasses and similar offences. [CAP. 228 3. Any person who without lawful authority or Nuisances excuse- (1) throws or lays, or causes or knowingly permits to be thrown or laid, any carrion, dirt, soil, straw or dung, or any other filth, rubbish or noisome or offensive matter whatsoever, on any public place, or on any Government property unless with the consent of a public officer, or on any private property unless with the consent of the owner and of the occupier (if any) of such private property; or into any well, stream, watercourse, ford or reservoir, or into any drain or sewer; or permits or suffers any such noisome or offensive substance as aforesaid to remain exposed in any drain, sewer or elsewhere, opposite to or in the immediate neighbourhood of his house; or allows any accumulation of filth or offensive substances within the premises occupied by him, or in any manner defiles or pollutes any well, stream or watercourse used by any of the inhabitants of the Colony or for the supplying with water of ships resorting thereto;" committed in public places, etc. (2) in or into a public place or vehicle or ferry or 10 of 1940, s. 2. any building to which the public have access, spits except into a receptacle or channel for sewage, sullage or waste water; (3) obeys any call of nature in any public, exposed, 11 of 1949, s. 3. or other improper place; J -(4)-sets--out-or-leaves, or causes to be set out or left, any matter or thing which obstructs, incommodes or endangers, or may obstruct, incommode or endanger, any person or vehicle in any public place; xdex (5) causes any annoyance or obstruction in any public 11 of 1949, s. 3. place- (a) by exposing anything for sale in or upon, or so as_to_hang_over, any street, road or footway, or on the outside of any house, shop or building or (b) by setting up or continuing any pole, blind, awning, line or other projection from any window, parapet or other part of any house, shop or building; 307
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Summary Offences.

Nuisances, trespasses and similar offences.

[CAP. 228

3. Any person who without lawful authority or Nuisances

excuse-

(1) throws or lays, or causes or knowingly permits to be thrown or laid, any carrion, dirt, soil, straw or dung, or any other filth, rubbish or noisome or offensive matter whatsoever, on any public place, or on any Government property unless with the consent of a public officer, or on any private property unless with the consent of the owner and of the occupier (if any) of such private property; or into any well, stream, watercourse, ford or reservoir, or into any drain or sewer; or permits or suffers any such noisome or offensive substance as aforesaid to remain exposed in any drain, sewer or elsewhere, opposite to or in the immediate neighbourhood of his house; or allows any accumulation of filth or offensive substances within the premises occupied by him, or in any manner defiles or pollutes any well, stream or watercourse used by any of the inhabitants of the Colony or for the supplying with water of ships resorting thereto;"

committed in public places, etc.

(2) in or into a public place or vehicle or ferry or 10 of 1940, s. 2. any building to which the public have access, spits except

into a receptacle or channel for sewage, sullage or waste

water;

(3) obeys any call of nature in any public, exposed, 11 of 1949, s. 3. or other improper place;

J

-(4)-sets--out-or-leaves, or causes to be set out or left, any matter or thing which obstructs, incommodes or endangers, or may obstruct, incommode or endanger, any person or vehicle in any public place;

xdex

(5) causes any annoyance or obstruction in any public 11 of 1949, s. 3. place-

(a) by exposing anything for sale in or upon, or so

as_to_hang_over, any street, road or footway, or on the outside of any house, shop or building ♪ or (b) by setting up or continuing any pole, blind, awning, line or other projection from any window, parapet or other part of any house, shop or building;

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