Every person commits an offence, and is liable to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, who in or within view of any public place as defined by section 40 hereof, or within the hearing of any person therein, behaves in a riotous, offensive, threatening, insulting, or disorderly manner, or uses any threatening, abusive, or insulting words.

Any constable, and all persons whom he calls to his assistance, may arrest and take into custody without a warrant any person whom he finds committing or whom he has good cause to suspect of having committed an offence against this section.”

Every person commits an offence, and is liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds, who in any railway train, railcar, tramcar, omnibus, service car, taxicab, or other vehicle for the time being used for the carriage for hire or reward of members of the public, or any ferry vessel for the time being so used on any harbour, lake, or river (not being a vessel in respect of which a packet licence under the Licensing Act 1908 is in force),—

Without limiting the provisions of subsection (1) of this section, every person under the age of twenty-one years commits an offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds who, in any public place, not being licensed premises under the Licensing Act 1908,—

“Provided that nothing in this subsection shall apply in any case where the person drinking or in possession or control of the liquor is accompanied by his or her spouse or by a parent or guardian or other person acting in the place of a parent of that person.

Any constable may seize and remove any intoxicating liquor which there is reasonable ground to suppose is intended for consumption in contravention of subsection (1) or subsection (2) of this section, and the vessels containing the liquor.

Any liquor so seized in respect of which any person is convicted of an offence under this section, together with the vessels containing the liquor, shall be forfeited to the Crown.

For the purposes of this section,—

Where any person is convicted of an offence to which this section applies, and at the time of the commission of the offence the person convicted was the driver or person in charge of any motor vehicle as defined in the Transport Act 1949, the convicting Court, in addition to imposing any penalty for the offence,—

The provisions of section 31 of the Transport Act 1949, except subsections (1) and (3) thereof, shall apply, so far as they are applicable and with the necessary modifications, in every case where the Court makes an order of cancellation or suspension or disqualification under this section.

This section shall apply with respect to offences committed in a public place (as defined in section 40 hereof) against any of the following enactments: