Section 10: Beating drums, etc.

(1) It shall be unlawful for persons to assemble and remain in any street or public place or in any house, outhouse, building, shed, yard or other place, beating any drum, going, tom-tom or other such instrument, or dancing thereto, before the hour of four in the afternoon, or after the hour of nine in the evening; and it shall be lawful for any constable to warn persons assembling or remaining in any street or public place as aforesaid forthwith to depart, and by himself, or with such assistance as he may take to his aid, to enter such house, out-house, building, shed, yard, or other place in which persons are unlawfully assembled as aforesaid, and to warn all persons therein forthwith to depart. (2) If any person, after being so warned, except the persons actually dwelling in any such house, out-house, building, shed, yard or other place shall refuse or neglect forthwith to depart, it shall be lawful for such constable, or any other person or persons he may have called to his aid, to apprehend any person so refusing or neglecting to depart, and every person, on conviction of such refusal or neglect to depart, shall be liable to a fine not exceeding ten leones and every such drum, gong, tom-tom, or other such instrument shall be destroyed and broken up, and the owner or occupier of such house, out-house, building, shed, yard, or other place, who shall have permitted such persons unlawfully to assemble or remain as aforesaid shall on conviction thereof be liable to a fine, not exceeding ten leones. (3) It shall be unlawful for any person except with the permission of the Commissioner of Police, first had and obtained, to play, or cause to be played, in or upon any house, out-house, building, shed, yard, or other place after the hour of midnight or before the hour of six in the morning, any gramophone or similar instrument, and the occupier of any such house, out-house, building, shed or other place in or upon which any such instrument shall have been played between the said hours, without such permission, shall be guilty of an offence and shall on conviction thereof, be liable to a fine, not exceeding ten leones; Provided that no prosecution shall be brought under this section in respect of an offence committed in a private house, unless the occupier of such private house has been warned in writing by a Police Officer on not less than three occasions when a similar offence was alleged to have been committed, and with the consent of the Attorney-General.