Clause 3

The Deputy Commissioner of Police may issue orders, which shall be published in the Gazette, prohibiting the letting off of fireworks for such periods or in such defined areas as may be prescribed.(2) Any person who lets off any firework in contravention of any order issued under subsection (1) shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance and shall be liable on conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or to imprisonment for a term not exceeding one month or to both such fine and imprisonment.(3) The occupier of any house from or in which, or from or in the verandah of which, any contravention of subsection (2) takes place shall be guilty of an offence under this Ordinance and shall be liable on conviction to the punishment prescribed as well as the person, if another person, who committed the offence.(4) In this section, the expression “fireworks” includes fire crackers and sand crackers.”.