Section 13

beats within the limits of any town or village between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m. or in any public road or public place at any hour, a drum or tom-tom, or blows a horn or trumpet, or beats or sounds any instrument or utensil in such a manner as to cause annoyance or inconvenience to occupants of any premises in the vicinity;

or

operates or causes or suffers to be operated any gramophone or wireless loud speaker or pianola or other form of music mechanically or electrically produced in such a manner as to cause annoyance or inconvenience to occupants of any premises in the vicinity; or

operates or causes or suffers to be operated in or near any public road or public place or in any shop, business premises, building or place which adjoins any public road or public place any gramophone or wireless loud speaker or any other instrument whatsoever for the production of noise or music in such a manner as to cause annoyance or inconvenience to occupants of any premises in the vicinity, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred ringgit.

Any police officer not below the rank of Inspector, on the complaint of a house holder that the noise of any such instrument is dangerous to any sick person living near the place where such instrument is being operated, or for any other good and sufficient

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reason, may enter upon the premises or other place where the instrument is being operated, and after warning stop the same, either by the removal of the instrument or in some other appropriate way.

Nothing in this section shall apply to any music played by any of the armed forces of Malaysia or by any local force or visiting force or by the police force or to any call, prayer or other sound produced for religious purpose or to police whistles blown by any person for the purpose of calling assistance or to the reasonable use of any horn, bell, whistle or similar appliance on any motor car, bicycle or other vehicle on a public road for the purpose of avoiding an accident, or to anything done with the permission of the Chief Police Officer.

Insulting behaviour