Town Police Clauses Act, 1847

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

29. Every person drunk in any street, and guilty of any riotous or indecent behaviour therein, and also 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.

And with respect to fires, be it enacted as follows: