# Town Police Clauses Act 1847, Section 29: Penalty on drunken persons, &c. guilty of riotous or indecent behaviour.


. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/10-11/89/section/29 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/town-police-clauses-act-1847/section-29
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