Malaysia legislation
Section 15
Section 15
Miscellaneous nuisances
(a)
(Deleted by Act No. 40 of 1967);
Bathing in public
(b)
bathes or washes himself, or any other person, animal or thing on any public road, or in or by the side of any public tank, reservoir, standpipe, watercourse or stream, the use of which for bathing has been forbidden by the
Chief Police Officer or any other lawful authority;
Obstructing person bathing
(c)
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;
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Minor Offences
Spitting
(d)
spits in any coffee shop, eating house, school premises or public place or in any trolley-bus, omnibus, railway carriage or other public conveyance or in or near any public road:
Provided that nothing in this paragraph shall prohibit any person from spitting into any receptacle provided for the purpose or into any drain, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding one hundred ringgit.
Affixing bills or otherwise defacing property, etc.
(2)
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—
(a)
affixes or causes to be affixed any advertisement, bill or notice, or any paper or banner against or upon any property;
(b)
writes upon, marks, defaces or tampers with chalk or paint or in any other way any property;
(c)
damages, alters or removes any property, shall be liable to a term of imprisonment not exceeding one year or a fine not exceeding one thousand ringgit or to both.
In this subsection the expression “property” includes any building, wall, road, fence, tree, lamp standard, lamp or telephone post, traffic sign and notice board.
Offering, soliciting to offer, or loitering for the purpose of offering, services for profit or reward 15A. (1) Any person who in any Government office or in the office of any public authority, or in the vicinity thereof offers, or solicits to offer, or loiters for the purpose of offering, for profit or reward his services to any person having business in that office or any other office (whether or not the services so offered relate
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to the business) shall be guilty of an offence punishable with a fine not exceeding five hundred ringgit or with imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to both:
Provided that the foregoing provisions shall not apply to—
(a)
any person who is licensed under any written law or is otherwise authorized to act as a petition writer; and
(b)
any officer in the office specifically appointed to advise the public on the business carried on in the said office.
(2)
For the purpose of this section “Government office” includes the office of the Registrar of Federal Court, the High Court, Sessions
Court or Magistrate’s Court, and “public authority” shall mean a local authority, or a statutory authority exercising powers vested in it by Federal or State law.
(3)
Any person offering or soliciting to offer his services or loitering in any office mentioned in subsection (1) or in the vicinity thereof shall be presumed until the contrary is proved to have offered or solicited to offer, as the case may be, his services for profit or reward.
MILITARY, POLICE AND MARINE
Unlawful possession of military, naval, air force or police stores