Byelaws

Ground unfit

16.

A person shall not in any part of the pleasure ground which may have been set apart by the Council for any game play or take part in any game when the state of the ground or other cause makes it unfit for use or when such an area has been prepared for a game and a notice is set up in some conspicuous position prohibiting play in that part of the pleasure ground.

Dangerous Sports

17.

A person shall not in the pleasure ground

1. use a golf club to putt, drive, pitch or chip a solid golf ball except where the Council set apart any such part of the recreation ground for that purpose;
2. engage in the sports or pursuits of archery or discus, shot, hammer or javelin throwing except in any area which by notice conspicuously displayed the Council set aside for such sports or pursuits.

Erecting tents, booths etc.

18.

A person shall not in the pleasure ground

1. except as hereinafter provided erect any post, rail, fence, pole, tent, booth, stand, building, or other structure;
   Provided that this prohibition shall not apply where upon an application to the Council they grant permission to erect any post, rail, fence, pole, tent, booth, stand, building or other structure, upon such occasion and for such purpose as are specified in the application;
2. sell, or offer or expose for sale, or let to hire, or offer or expose for letting to hire, any commodity or article, unless, in pursuance of an agreement with the Council, or otherwise in the exercise of any lawful right or privilege, he is authorised to sell or let to hire in the pleasure ground such commodity or article;
3. distribute any book, pamphlet, leaflet, card, bill, advertisement, or literature of any kind so as to give reasonable cause for annoyance to any other person using the ground.

Playgrounds for children

19.

Where the Council set apart any such part of the pleasure ground as may be fixed by the Council and may be described in a notice board affixed or set up in some conspicuous position in the pleasure ground for the purpose of a playground for children, a person over the age of fourteen years and not in charge of a child or children under that age, shall not play or take part in any game in such part of the pleasure ground.

Public meetings

20.

A person shall not in the pleasure ground hold or take part in any meeting or public procession provided that nothing in this byelaw shall be deemed to prohibit the holding of Remembrance Day services or other civic services or other civic meetings held in the ground.

Horses

21.

1. A person shall not except in the exercise of any lawful right or privilege lead or ride any horse in the pleasure ground. Provided this byelaw shall not apply to the pleasure grounds known as Stable Meadows, North Cray Place and Chalk Wood.
2. Where any part of the pleasure ground known as Stable Meadows, North Cray Place or Chalk Wood has by a notice exhibited in a conspicuous position in the entrance thereto, been set apart by the Council as a horse ride and exercise area, a person shall not, except in the exercise of any lawful right or privilege, lead or ride a horse on any other part of that pleasure ground.