Miscellaneous Offences Act (Formerly Known as Minor Offences Act) · 2023 Revised Edition · Part · Police Orders as to Fireworks
11. Definition of nuisances and penalty
Official textFrom Attorney General's Chambers, unchanged
Any person who —
without authority in the case of public property, or without the consent of the owner or occupier in the case of private property, affixes or causes to be affixed any advertisement, bill or notice, or any paper against or upon any building, wall or fence, or writes upon,
owner
“owner” means the person for the time being receiving the rent of the building in connection with which the word is used whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any other person, or who would so receive the rent if the building were let to a tenant; and in any case in which such person cannot be found includes also the occupier, if any, of such building.
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defaces or marks any such building, wall or fence with chalk or paint or in any other way;
building
“building” includes any house, hut, shed or roofed enclosure, whether used for the purpose of a human habitation or otherwise, and also any wall, gate, post, pillar, paling, frame, boarding, slip, dock, wharf, pier, jetty, landing stage, bridge, any structure or erection of whatever material and in whatever manner constructed or any part of a building;
bathes or washes himself or any other person, animal or thing on any public road, or in, upon or by the side of any public tank, reservoir, watercourse or stream the use of which for bathing has been forbidden by the Commissioner of Police;
public road
“public road” includes every road, street, passage, footways or square over which the public have a right of way.
obstructs or incommodes a person bathing at any place set apart as a bathing place by wilful intrusion, or by washing any animal at or near such place, or in any other way;
wilfully or indecently exposes his person, or commits a nuisance by easing himself in or by the side of, or near to, any public road or public place;
being the owner or person in charge of any animal does not, if such animal dies, dispose of its carcase in such a way as not to be a common nuisance;
places on or near any public road any dead animal;
spits on the floor of any school house, theatre, public building or other place of public entertainment or assembly, or in any licensed public vehicle, or in any tram or railway car, or on any wharf or jetty, or on any five-foot way or side-walk of a public street; or
keeps pigs in any Malay village, is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $250.
OFFENCES IN RESPECT OF UNCLEANLINESS IN PUBLIC PLACES
AND UNAUTHORISED DUMPING
Terms defined in this Act
building
Defined · s 38“building” includes any house, hut, shed or roofed enclosure, whether used for the purpose of a human habitation or otherwise, and also any wall, gate, post, pillar, paling, frame, boarding, slip, dock, wharf, pier, jetty, landing stage, bridge, any structure or erection of whatever material and in whatever manner constructed or any part of a building;
occupier
Defined · s 38“occupier” means the person in occupation of the building in respect of which the word is used, or having the charge, management or control thereof either on his own account or as agent of another person and includes a tenant or lodger; Miscellaneous Offences 26
owner
Defined · s 38“owner” means the person for the time being receiving the rent of the building in connection with which the word is used whether on his own account or as agent or trustee for any other person, or who would so receive the rent if the building were let to a tenant; and in any case in which such person cannot be found includes also the occupier, if any, of such building.
public road
Defined · s 2“public road” includes every road, street, passage, footways or square over which the public have a right of way.
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Pounds
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Unlawful Possession of Property
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