Summary Jurisdiction (Offences)

Cap. 98 · Revised Edition 2020 · 55 sections

s. 1Short title
s. 2Interpretation
s. 3Offences punishable as petty misdemeanours
s. 4Petty offences
s. 5Proof of unlawful purpose or intent
s. 6Removal of derelict vehicles
s. 7Idle and disorderly person
s. 8Rogue and vagabond
s. 9Incorrigible rogue
s. 10Incorrigible rogue, punishment
s. 11Idle and disorderly person, etc., found in hotel, etc
s. 12Power to seize things in possession of idle and disorderly person, etc
s. 13Form of conviction
s. 14Drunkenness
s. 15Keeping brothel
s. 16Determination of tenancy
s. 17Search warrant for persons suspected of being held for immoral purposes
s. 18Trading on prostitution
s. 19Dancing in town after midnight
s. 20Circulation of or traffic in obscene objects
s. 21Power to search for, seize and destroy obscene objects
s. 22Summary proceedings against persons affixing, etc., indecent or obscene pictures or printed or written matter
s. 23Indecent advertisement
s. 24Bathing in public insufficiently clothed
s. 25Name and address of printer and publisher to be disclosed
s. 26Willful trespass notwithstanding notice
s. 27Trespass to land by night
s. 28Trespass to private premises or to enclosed or cultivated land
s. 29Trespasser refusing to quit or give his name, etc., may be apprehended
s. 30Mode of dealing with article found in possession of willful trespasser
s. 31Dealing with animal or thing brought on land by willful trespasser
s. 32Willful trespass with vessel on private wharf notwithstanding notice
s. 33Willful trespass on land between high and low-water marks notwithstanding notice, and fishing therefrom
s. 34Willful trespass on land between high-water and low-water marks, notwithstanding notice, and cutting wood thereon
s. 35Saving of certain rights of pathway
s. 36Trespass with intent to steal or damage
s. 37Penalty for willful trespass
s. 38Injury to notice forbidding trespass
s. 39Assistance in apprehension of willful trespasser
s. 40Prevention of squatting
s. 41Punishment for unlawfully taking beast or boat
s. 42Damages and costs may be awarded
s. 43Court may acquit of stealing and find guilty of unlawful trespass and shall assess damages
s. 44Release of person convicted on payment of damages and costs
s. 45Damages go to complainant, costs into Consolidated Revenue Fund
s. 46Saving of royal prerogative of pardon
s. 47Power of the court with respect to unlawful detention of articles
s. 48Disposal or retention by workman of article committed to his care
s. 49Making of complaint under this Part
s. 50Certain crimes declared summary conviction offences and limitation of jurisdiction
s. 51Summary trial of crimes
s. 52Abetment of, and attempt to commit, crimes triable summarily
s. 53Duty to surrender
s. 54Amendment of laws
s. 55Deportees