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Urinating in public
No im not in any kind of trouble as this is a question that came from an earlier question i asked so feel free to answer anyones genuine question before mine as i'm not really pressed for the answer.
If you have tried to go to the public toilets and they're locked or out of order and you've tried the pub and ast food establishments and was told that you can't use their toilets as you're not a customer and as you're really dying to go to the point you're going to soil yourself and you urinate in public.
Can you be fined or arrested and taken to court even though you've exausted all other legitimate avenues to urinating withing the law?
Would this be policemans discretion or as i've said a finable or chargable offence?
If you have tried to go to the public toilets and they're locked or out of order and you've tried the pub and ast food establishments and was told that you can't use their toilets as you're not a customer and as you're really dying to go to the point you're going to soil yourself and you urinate in public.
Can you be fined or arrested and taken to court even though you've exausted all other legitimate avenues to urinating withing the law?
Would this be policemans discretion or as i've said a finable or chargable offence?
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This document by the Law Commission debunks both "useless facts" proffered by DT...
http://www.justice.go...cs/Legal_Oddities.pdf
http://www.justice.go...cs/Legal_Oddities.pdf
From the PDF...
"There is no generally applicable offence of urinating in public. There was an attempt to insert an amendment into the Criminal and Justice Police Act 2001 to create a specific offence but the amendment was rejected...
However the offence is regulated by local bye-laws: Home Office Model Byelaws Bye-law No 24: no person shall urinate or defecate in any public place...
Although discretion not to charge might be exercised if a pregnant woman were caught short in public, it does seem unlikely that a police officer would offer his helmet for the purpose."
The 2006 Model Byelaw set 8 (Good rule and government) available at the Department for Communities and Local Government website has Urinating, etc. listed as Byelaw 13...
http://www.communitie...vernment/modelbyelaw6
If the local authority has enacted such a byelaw the maximum penalty allowed upon summary conviction is a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale (£500).
"There is no generally applicable offence of urinating in public. There was an attempt to insert an amendment into the Criminal and Justice Police Act 2001 to create a specific offence but the amendment was rejected...
However the offence is regulated by local bye-laws: Home Office Model Byelaws Bye-law No 24: no person shall urinate or defecate in any public place...
Although discretion not to charge might be exercised if a pregnant woman were caught short in public, it does seem unlikely that a police officer would offer his helmet for the purpose."
The 2006 Model Byelaw set 8 (Good rule and government) available at the Department for Communities and Local Government website has Urinating, etc. listed as Byelaw 13...
http://www.communitie...vernment/modelbyelaw6
If the local authority has enacted such a byelaw the maximum penalty allowed upon summary conviction is a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale (£500).
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