Section 298 - Disturbing the peace in a public place

A person commits a criminal offence and is liable to a fine not exceeding ten penalty units who in a public place, or in a place within sight or hearing of persons who are in that place

(a) disturbs the peace by fighting or quarrelling with any other person, or by making a loud or an unseemly noise, or

(b) abets an unlawful fight, or uses or applies to any other person who is in that public place or within sight or hearing of it, a violent or abusive term of reproach, or

(c) sings a profane, an indecent, or obscene song, or

(d) exposes defamatory or insulting writing or object, or with the intention of annoying or irritating any other person, sings a scurrilous or an abusive song or words, whether a particular person is addressed or not, or does an act which is riotous, indecent, disorderly, insulting behaviour, to the obstruction or annoyance of a passenger or person in the public place.