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Section 29 Penalty on drunken persons, &c. guilty of riotous or indecent behaviour.C1

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . F1 every person guilty of any violent or indecent behaviour in any police office or any police station house, within the limits of the special Act, shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding forty shillings for every such offence, or, in the discretion of the justice before whom he is convicted, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding seven days.

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Textual amendments

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Words repealed by Criminal Justice Act 1967 (c. 80), s. 91(2), Sch. 7 Pt. I

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C1

S. 29, as incorporated in any other enactment, amended by Penalties for Drunkenness Act 1962 (c. 52), s. 1(1)(b), (2)(b)