Public Health Acts Amendment Act 1907

81 Extending definition of public place and street for certain purposes. E+W+N.I.

Any place of public resort or recreation ground belonging to, or under the control of, the local authority, and any unfenced ground adjoining or abutting upon any street in [F1 a district] shall for the purpose of the M1 Vagrancy Act 1824 and of any Act for the time being in force altering or amending the same, be deemed to be an open and public place, and shall be deemed to be a street for the purposes of section twenty-nine of the M2 Town Police Clauses Act 1847, and also for the purposes of so much of section twenty-eight of that Act as relates to the following offences:—

• Every person who suffers to be at large any unmuzzled ferocious dog, or urges any dog or other animal to attack, worry, or put in fear any person or animal:

• Every person who rides or drives furiously any horse or carriage, or drives furiously any cattle:

• . . . F2

• Every person who wilfully and indecently exposes his person:

• Every person who publicly offers for sale or distribution, or exhibits to public view, any profane, [F3 indecent, or obscene] book, paper, print, drawing, painting, or representation, or sings any profane or obscene song or ballad, or uses any profane or obscene language:

• Every person who wantonly discharges any firearm or discharges any missile or makes any bonfire:

• Every person who throws or lays any dirt, litter, ashes, or night soil, or any carrion, fish, offal, or rubbish, on any street.

Textual Amendments

F1 Words substituted by virtue of Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), s. 179(3)

F2 Words repealed by Street Offences Act 1959 (c. 57), Sch.

F3 Words repealed (E.W.) by Indecent Displays (Control) Act 1981 (c. 42, SIF 39:5), s. 1, Sch.

Modifications etc. (not altering text)

C1 S. 81 excluded (Greater London) by Local Government Act 1972 (c. 70), Sch. 14 Pt. II para. 26

Marginal Citations

M1 1824 c. 83.

M2 1847 c. 89.