Town Police Clauses Act 1847

29 Penalty on drunken persons, &c. guilty of riotous or indecent behaviour. U.K.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1 every person guilty of any violent or indecent behaviour in any police office or any police station house, within the limits of the special Act, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings for every such offence, or, in the discretion of the justice before whom he is convicted, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding seven days.

Textual Amendments

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1S. 29, as incorporated in any other enactment, amended by Penalties for Drunkenness Act 1962 (c. 52), s. 1(1)(b), (2)(b)