Section 15
Miscellaneous nuisances
(1)
Any person who—
(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 16.
Any person who knowingly detains, buys, exchanges or receives from any person serving in the armed forces of Malaysia or in any local force or visiting force or from any member of the police force of Malaysia or of Singapore any accoutrements, clothing or other military, naval, air force or police stores or necessaries, or any other property belonging to the Government of Malaysia or of Singapore or the Government of the country to which such visiting force belongs, or any medal for good conduct or for distinguished or other services, or who has in his possession or keeping any such accoutrements, clothing or other military, naval, air force or police stores or necessaries or other property or medal as above and does not give a satisfactory account how he came by the same shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six weeks or to both.
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Minor Offences
Taking spirits, etc., into barracks and police stations 17.
Any person who, not being a person serving in the armed forces of Malaysia or in any local force or visiting force or a member of the police force, takes or attempts to take into any military barrack, guardroom or encampment, or on board or alongside any vessel-of-war belonging to or transport hired by the Government of Malaysia or of the country to which any visiting force belongs, or any vessel in the service of the Government of Malaysia or of any State in any port in Malaysia or into any police barrack, police station or lock-up or into any public hospital or mental hospital any intoxicating liquor, drug or preparation without the permission of the Commanding Officer or of the Chief Police Officer or of the person in charge of the public hospital or mental hospital, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty ringgit or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding three months or to both and such liquor, drug or preparation and the vessels containing the same may be forfeited.
HOTELS AND PUBLIC HOUSES