Criminal Law Code as at 1st March 2007
2.
Any person who⎯
(a) wantonly or mischievously⎯
(i) rings any bell; or
(ii) makes any noise or disturbance or plays any musical instrument or wireless in a
public place; or
(iii) knocks at doors; or
(iv) throws any property from any place; or
(v) removes any property from any place; or
(vi) dislodges or disfigures any property; or
(vii) gives a false alarm of fire; or
(viii) does any act of a like nature;
(b) wantonly or mischievously provokes any animal;
(c) without the permission of the appropriate authority, makes a fire or lets off fireworks
manufactured for the purpose of amusement, in a public place;
(d) rides or drives any animal upon any pavement;
(e) throws or deposits any refuse or inflammatory material in or upon a public place or in
or upon any other place which has not been set aside for that purpose by the
appropriate authority;
(f) encumbers or obstructs the free passage along any street, road, thoroughfare, sidewalk
or pavement;
(g) allows any refuse, excrement or other offensive material to be spilt or thrown into or
on a public place;
(h) cuts down, removes, destroys or injures any wood, tree or shrub without the
permission of the owner or occupier of the land upon which such wood, tree or shrub
is situated, or, in the case of any wood, tree or shrub situated in or upon a public place,
the permission of the appropriate authority;
(i) rides or drives any animal in or through a public place in a manner dangerous to the
public;
(j) discharges any firearm, air-pistol, air-rifle or air-gun in or upon a public place unless
such weapon is discharged in self-defence, for humane reasons or in circumstances in
which such discharge is justified under any law;
(k) fires any explosive in or upon a public place without the permission of the appropriate
authority;
(l) drives or leaves any vehicle drawn by oxen in any public street or thoroughfare
without a person at the head of such oxen or leaves any vehicle drawn by horses,
donkeys or mules standing in any street or thoroughfare without a person at the head of
such horses, donkeys or mules;
(m) shouts or screams in a public place to the annoyance of the public;
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