{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inebriates-act-1898/schedule-FIRST",
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  "legislation": "ukpga/Vict/61-62/60",
  "legislation_title": "Inebriates Act 1898",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/inebriates-act-1898",
  "path": "schedule/FIRST",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "FIRST",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "Description of Offence\nStatute enacting Offence\nBeing found drunk in a highway or other public place, whether a building or not, or on licensed premises.\nLicensing Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 94), s. 12.\nBeing guilty while drunk of riotous or disorderly behaviour in a highway or other public place, whether a building or not.\nLicensing Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 94), s. 12.\nBeing drunk while in charge, on any highway or other public place, of any carriage, horse, cattle, or steam-engine.\nLicensing Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 94), s. 12.\nBeing drunk when in possession of any loaded firearms.\nLicensing Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 94), s. 12.\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\n. . .\nBeing found drunk in any street or public thoroughfare within the Metropolitan Police District, and being guilty while drunk of any riotous or indecent behaviour.\nMetropolitan Police Act 1839 (2 & 3 Vict. c. 47), s. 58.\nBeing drunk in any street, and being guilty of riotous or indecent behaviour therein.\nTown Police Clauses Act 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 89), s. 29.\nBeing intoxicated while driving a hackney carriage.\nTown Police Clauses Act 1847 (10 & 11 Vict. c. 89), s. 61.\nBeing drunk during employment as a driver of a hackney carriage, or as a driver or conductor of a stage carriage in the Metropolitan Police District.\nLondon Hackney Carriages Act 1843 (6 & 7 Vict. c. 86), s. 28.\nBeing drunk and persisting, after being refused admission on that account, in attempting to enter a passenger steamer.\nMerchant Shipping Act 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), s. 287.\nBeing drunk on board a passenger steamer, and refusing to leave such steamer when requested.\nMerchant Shipping Act 1894 (57 & 58 Vict. c. 60), s. 287.\nFailing to leave licensed premises, etc. when asked to do so.\nLicensing Act 2003, s 143.\nEntering, or attempting to enter, licensed premises, etc. when asked not to do so.\nLicensing Act 2003, s 143.\nDescription of Offence\nStatute enacting Offence\nBeing found in a state of intoxication and incapable of taking care of himself, and not under the care or protection of some suitable person, in any street, thoroughfare, or public place.\nLicensing (Scotland) Act 1903 (c. 25), s. 70\nBeing in any street drunk and incapable and not under the care and protection of some suitable person.\nBurgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 55), s. 381.\nBeing drunk while in charge in any street or other place of any carriage, horse, cattle, or steam engine, or when in possession of any loaded firearms.\nBurgh Police (Scotland) Act 1892 (55 & 56 Vict. c. 55), s. 380.\nBeing found in any shebeen drunk\nPublic Houses Acts Amendment (Scotland) Act 1862 (25 & 26 Vict. c. 35), s. 19.\n. . .\n. . .",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 entries repealed (24.11.2005) by Licensing Act 2003 (c. 17), s. 201(2), Sch. 6 para. 6(a), Sch. 7 (with ss. 2(3), 15(2), 195); S.I. 2005/3056, art. 2(2) (with art. 4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Sch. 1 entries inserted (24.11.2005) by Licensing Act 2003 (c. 17), s. 201(2), Sch. 6 para. 6(b) (with ss. 2(3), 15(2), 195); S.I. 2005/3056, art. 2(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words substituted by virtue of Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30), s. 17(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Entries repealed by Statute Law (Repeals) Act 1976 (c. 16), Sch. 1 Pt. II"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 1 extended by Licensing Act 1902 (c. 28), s. 2(3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "References to Licensing Act 1872 (c. 94), s. 12, Metropolitan Police Act 1839 (c. 47), s. 58 and Town Police Clauses Act 1847 (c. 89), s.29 to be construed as including references to Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80), s. 91(1): Interpretation Act 1978 (c. 30), s. 17(2)(a)"
    }
  ],
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T12:27:11.263353+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}