Miscellaneous Offences Act (Formerly Known as Minor Offences Act)

This Act may be cited as the Miscellaneous Offences Act.

In this Act, unless the context otherwise requires —

“cattle” includes buffaloes, bullocks, bulls, cows, goats, sheep, pigs and poultry;

“horse” includes asses and mules;

“in or near any public road” includes all places in the public road, and all places within 10 yards of it not being effectually separated from and hidden from the road by a wall or otherwise;

“Minister” means the Minister of Home Affairs;

“public road” includes every road, street, passage, footways or square over which the public have a right of way.

Fireworks are said to be let off “near a public road” when let off in a verandah beside a public road, or from the doors or windows of a house looking into a public road or overlooking a place in or near a public road.

The open verandahs of houses abutting on the public roads are public roads for pedestrian subject to all rights of property of the owners of such houses.

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