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”).

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.

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.”

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.

Section twenty-six of the principal Act is hereby amended by the addition of the following subsection:—