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1895

INTERPRETATION OF TERMS.

2.- Throughout these Bye-laws the following words or expressions shall have the meanings hereafter respectively assigned to them, unless such meanings be inconsistent with the context or subject matter in connection with which such words or expressions occur: namely -

i. "Street" means and includes any highway, any public bridge and any road, lane, footway, square, court, alley or passage open to the public, whether a thoroughfare or not.

ii."Public Place" Includes any common, park, pleasure ground, roadside waste, church-yard, chapel-yard, market (whether established under charter or otherwise), and any other land or place to which the public have access for the time being.

PROFANE SONGS, &c.

3.- No person shall in any street or public place, or on land adjacent thereto, sing or recite any profane song or ballad, or use any profane or obscene language.

INDECENT CONDUCT

4.- No person shall in any street or public place, or on land adjacent to and within view of any street or public place, commit any act of indecency.

ABUSIVE. &c., LANGUAGE OR BEHAVIOUR

5.- No person shall in any street or public place, or on land adjacent thereto, use any abusive, insulting or threatening language or behaviour to the annoyance, interruption, obstruction or fear of any person or persons passing or being thereon, or near thereto, or so as to provoke a breach of the peace.

MAKING SLIDES, THROWING STONES, &c.

6.- No person shall in any street or public place make or use any slide, or use any catapult or project, or sling or throw any stone or missile, or play any offensive or dangerous game, so as to cause injury, danger or annoyance to residents or passengers, animals or property.

ANNOYANCE OF PERSONS ATTENDING PLACES OF WORSHIP

7. - No person shall in any street or public place wilfully and persistently loiter or smoke at or near the entrance of any Church, Chapel, Meeting-house or other place of worship during the time of Divine service, or during the assembly thereat or departure therefrom of the congregation, in such manner as to cause annoyance to persons going to, attending at, or returning from any of such places of worship.

STREET MUSIC

10. - No person shall sound or play upon any musical or noisy instrument, or sing or continuously shout in any street or public place within 100 yards of any dwelling house after being required by an inmate of such house personally, or by his or her servant, to depart from the neighbourhood of such house.

DISTURBANCE OF PERSONS ASSEMBLED IN PUBLIC BUILDINGS

11. - No person shall sound or play upon any musical or noisy instrument, or sing or shout in any street or public place within 100 yards of any Church, Chapel or other Place of Public Worship, or of any Theatre, Public Hall, Public Concert Room, Public Lecture Room, or of any place of assembly for persons admitted thereto by ticket or otherwise, or of any Hospital, Infirmary or other building used for the reception and treatment of the sick, to the annoyance or disturbance of any of the persons so assembled as aforesaid, or of any inmate of such Hospital, Infirmary or other building, after being requested by any Constable, or by any person so annoyed or disturbed, or by any person acting on his or her behalf, to depart from the neighbourhood of such building or place.

12. - The foregoing Bye-laws, Nos. 10 and 11, shall not apply to any Band belonging to any branch of Her Majesty's Army, Navy or Reserve Forces, nor to any Fair lawfully held.

1925

SHOOTING GALLERIES, ROUNDABOUTS, etc.

18. -A) No person shall, in any street or public place, or on any land adjoining, or near thereto, erect, keep, or manage, or cause to be erected, kept or managed, a Shooting Gallery, Swingboat, Roundabout, or any construction of a like character, so as to cause obstruction or danger to the traffic in any such street or public place.

-B) No person shall, in any street or public place, or on any land adjoining or near thereto, use or play, or cause to be used or played, any Steam Organ or other Musical Instrument worked by mechanical means, to the annoyance or disturbance of residents or passengers.

-C) Provided always that this Bye-law shall not apply to any Fair lawfully held.

1943

WIRELESS LOUDSPEAKERS AND GRAMOPHONES.

26.    (1) This bye-law shall extend and apply to all parts of the administrative County of Gloucester with the exception of any municipal borough.

       (2) No person shall in any street or public place or in, or in connection with, any shop, business premises, or other place which adjoins any street or public place and to which the public are admitted, operate or cause or suffer to be operated, any wireless loudspeaker or gramophone in such a manner as to cause annoyance or disturbance of occupants or inmates of any premises or passensers.