NEW POLICE OFFENCES.

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 3, 3 July 1926, Page 8

NEW POLICE OFFENCES.

It the.Police Offences Amendment Hill, introduced in the House of Representatives yesterday, becomes taw, persons who obtain admission to theatres and other places without paying the lawful admission fee will be liable to bo removed by the police and to be ii'n^d £10. The police are authorised to demand the offender's name and address, and, it: they havo reason to believe that the information given v

false, to require evidence of its correctness to be given.. Should the^fif;-.. fender reflise-to give "his name *ahd-|»4.*^ dre«s }je may-be arrested without war-1; rant and he will.be liable to''-a ''■&&£«£" \.&'s. ■' The penalty prescribed for obscenity may be imposed in respect to indecent,;acts in any place intended to insult or'-''.-offend any person. The! Bill also proposes to authorise the arrest of a person without lawful means of support, and upon conviction as an idle and disorderly personJio^ may be sentenced.to three months' im-. prisonment.. The fact that the person charged can produce or prove that,,hp possesses money or property isnot.to, be taken into account-in deciding the charge unless he shows by .his own ..'or other evidence that he honestly obtain-... cd such money or property. <,„.„-.,-,.. At the present time it is an offence-! to be found.by night on private property without lawful, excuse. ThiS'iato be extended: so that it shall be. mw offence not only by night but at ,any . time. . ■_ '". .' '- ':'-' ''■'■ ' " „.., ■'„.'