Miscellaneous Offences (Public Order and Nuisance) Act 1906 · 2020 Revised Edition · Part 2 · Offences Against Public Order and Nuisance
14. Excessive noise
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public road
“public road” includes every road, street, passage, footway or square over which the public has a right of way.
Any police officer, on any complaint that any person in any premises or in any public place is making such noise as to cause annoyance or inconvenience to the complainant, may enter upon the premises or proceed to the public place and, after warning the person reasonably suspected of making the noise, stop the making of such noise whether by the removal of any instrument or object or in some other appropriate manner.
public place
“public place” means any place or premises to which at the material time the public or any section of the public has access, on payment or otherwise, as of right or by virtue of express or implied permission;