Section 5
Orders by public notification for fireworks licences
of Miscellaneous Offences Act ( Formerly Known as Minor Offences Act)
(1)
The Commissioner of Police may, with the sanction of the
Minister, issue orders to be promulgated by public notification authorising the letting off of fireworks on certain fixed days, and at certain fixed hours in places near a public road, and may issue licences at particular times for the letting off of fireworks in places near a public road.
(2)
Every licence issued under this section shall state the place where and hours between which the fireworks may be fired or let off and the description of fireworks to be used.
(3)
No authority so notified, or licence so issued, shall be held to relieve any person from liability in the event of any damage, loss or injury to person or property being caused by the firing or letting off of such fireworks.
(4)
Any person who lets off any fireworks in or near any public road, except at such times and places and in such manner as is from time to time allowed under subsection (1) is guilty of an offence and liable on conviction to a fine of $250.
(5)
The occupier of any house from or in which, or from or in the verandah of which, any contravention of subsection (4) takes place, is liable to the penalty prescribed as well as the person, if another person, who commits the offence.
BURNING MATERIAL OR DISCHARGING
FIREARM IN PUBLIC ROAD