In a newscast aired earlier this week, solicitor
general Keith Friday said that the penalty for violating the noise
control act was 12 years imprisonment.
Well, citizens against
noise, the group lobbying for the enforcement of the act, contacted our
news desk to clarify that the penalty is in fact 12 months
incarceration and not 12 years.
This was much needed clarification since the earlier statement of
12 year had provoked quite a response from the public with some
websites expressing outrage over the length of the sentence.
Some of the questions being asked
by john public is how will the level of noise be measured and who
determine if it actually noise and who will be the judge of that. Link