Police Offences Amendment Act 1901
Police Offences Amendment Act 1901
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Police Offences Amendment Act 1901
Public Act |
1901 No 8 |
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Date of assent |
24 August 1901 |
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Contents
An Act to amend “The Police Offences Act, 1884.”
BE IT ENACTED by the General Assembly of New Zealand in Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—
1 Short Title.
The Short Title of this Act is “The Police Offences Amendment Act, 1901,”
and it shall form part of and be read together with “The Police Offences Act, 1884”
(hereinafter called “the principal Act”
).
2 “Public place”
defined.
The words “public place”
in subsection twenty-nine of section three of the principal Act shall have the meaning assigned to the said words in section eighteen of the said Act.
3 Use of foul language in public places punishable by imprisonment or fine.
(1.)
Subsection two of section twenty-four of the principal Act is hereby amended by striking out the words “or uses any profane, indecent, or obscene language.”
(2.)
Any person who uses any profane, indecent, or obscene language in any public place as defined in section eighteen of the principal Act, or within the hearing of any person in such public place, shall be liable to imprisonment with hard labour for any term not exceeding one year, or to a penalty not exceeding twenty pounds.
4 Extension as to idle and disorderly persons.
Section twenty-six of the principal Act is hereby amended by the addition of the following subsection:—
“(4.)
Who habitually consorts with reputed thieves or prostitutes or persons who have no visible means of support.”
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