Power to regulate curfew

1  If a substantial number of the residents in a rural area present a petition to the Lieutenant Governor in Council for the establishment of a curfew in the area, the Lieutenant Governor in Council may, if the Lieutenant Governor in Council thinks it expedient to do so, make regulations as follows:

(a) prescribing that, except for an unavoidable cause, a child must not without proper guardianship be in any street or public place during night time in the area described in the regulations;

(b) prescribing the age at which a person is a child for a regulation made under paragraph (a);

(c) prescribing the hours that are night time for a regulation made under paragraph (a);

(d) prescribing for the purpose of a regulation under paragraph (c), different hours for different seasons of the year;

(e) if a regulation has been made under paragraph (a), prescribing that a bell or a whistle, known as the curfew, must be sounded as a warning near the commencement of night time;

(f) prescribing by whom the curfew must be sounded;

(g) prescribing the boundaries of the area to which a regulation applies;

(h) prescribing further matters for making a regulation under paragraph (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e) effective.

 Offence and penalty

2  (1)  If a child is found in a street or public place in contravention of a regulation under section 1 a peace officer may warn the child.

(2)  If, after the warning, the child continues to contravene the regulation, a peace officer may take the child to the child's home.

(3)  If a parent or guardian permits a child habitually to contravene a regulation made under section 1, the parent or guardian commits an offence.

(4)  A person who commits an offence under subsection (3) is liable, on conviction,

(a) for a first offence to a fine of $1,

(b) for a second offence to a fine of $2, and

(c) for any subsequent offence to a fine of $5.