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CRIMINAL JUSTICE (NORTHERN IRELAND) ORDER 1980 - SECT 10

10.(1) A person who is drunk in any road or other public place, whether a
building or not, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary
conviction to a fine not exceeding #20, and if he is incapable of taking care
of himself he may be arrested by a constable and detained until he is capable
of doing so.

(2) A person who is drunk while in charge, in any road or other public place,
of any horse or cattle shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on
summary conviction to a fine not exceeding #20 or to imprisonment for a term
not exceeding two months or both.

Para.(3) rep. by 1981 NI2 art.61(2) sch.5

(4) A constable may arrest without warrant any person who is or whom he with
reasonable cause suspects to be in the act of committing an offence under
paragraph (2)...

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