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Which wording in a public lost-property reward advert can be an offence under section 25 of New Zealand’s Summary Offences Act?

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1. Which wording in a public lost-property reward advert can be an offence under section 25 of New Zealand’s Summary Offences Act?
- A. Reward paid in cash
- B. Reward negotiable
- C. No questions will be asked (answer)
- D. Proof of ownership available
The Act expressly prohibits wording to the effect that no questions will be asked. Ordinary reward adverts are not all prohibited.
2. Who may authorise a tightly conditioned posthumous marriage under article 171 of France’s Civil Code?
- A. The regional prefect
- B. The President of the Republic (answer)
- C. The local mayor
- D. The eldest relative
Serious reasons and sufficient evidence of consent are required. It is not an unrestricted right to marry a deceased person.
3. Which noisy vehicle behaviour is expressly prohibited by section 30 of Germany’s road traffic rules?
- A. Excessively loud closing of vehicle doors (answer)
- B. Opening a convertible roof at night
- C. Using a manual handbrake
- D. Changing a tyre on Sunday
The provision names unnecessarily running engines and excessively loud door-closing as avoidable disturbance.
4. Which immediate duty appears in Singapore’s public-cleansing regulations for users of public flushing toilets?
- A. Notify an attendant
- B. Sign a cleaning register
- C. Disinfect the door handle
- D. Flush after use (answer)
Regulation 16 requires flushing after use. This provision concerns publicly accessible sanitary conveniences with flushing systems.
5. Under Singapore’s Currency Act, coins of one denomination are legal tender up to how many times their face value?
- A. 100
- B. 10
- C. 20 (answer)
- D. 50
The limit is 20 times the coin’s face value for that denomination. People may voluntarily accept more.
6. Under Canada’s Currency Act, what is the legal-tender limit for a payment entirely in five-cent coins?
- A. C$10
- B. C$5 (answer)
- C. C$1
- D. C$2
Section 8 sets C$5 as the five-cent-coin limit. Parties can still agree to accept a larger quantity.
7. Which pet has a minimum social group of two under Switzerland’s animal-keeping requirements?
- A. Guinea pig (answer)
- B. Syrian hamster
- C. Leopard gecko
- D. Corn snake
Guinea pigs are social animals. The requirement concerns species-appropriate welfare, not compulsory marriage between pets.
8. In a 1988 Western Australian statutory reprint, inspectors could stop vehicles believed to carry more than what quantity of potatoes?
- A. 100 kg
- B. 10 kg
- C. 25 kg
- D. 50 kg (answer)
Section 22A used a threshold exceeding 50 kg within the potato-marketing system. This is a historical inspection power, not a current ban.
9. What makes receiving fish potentially criminal under section 32 of Britain’s Salmon Act 1986?
- A. Refusing to name its species
- B. Carrying it after sunset
- C. Believing or reasonably suspecting a relevant fishery offence (answer)
- D. Transporting it without ice
The section targets fish connected with relevant offences. Merely holding a fish while looking suspicious is not the legal test.
10. Which machine is named in the Licensing Act 1872 provision about being drunk while in charge in a public place?
- A. Water pump
- B. Steam engine (answer)
- C. Printing press
- D. Mechanical loom
Section 12 expressly lists a carriage, horse, cattle or steam engine. The highway or public-place condition matters.
11. Which action is expressly prohibited by section 12 of the Currency and Banknotes Act 1928?
- A. Stamping words onto a banknote (answer)
- B. Folding a banknote into a bird
- C. Keeping a banknote as a souvenir
- D. Using a valid old-design banknote
The section prohibits printing, stamping or similarly impressing words, letters or figures on a banknote, not every form of handling.
12. Where section 28 of the Town Police Clauses Act 1847 applies, which wintry street activity is listed if it causes obstruction, annoyance or danger?
- A. Wearing skates away from a rink
- B. Building any snowman
- C. Carrying a shovel
- D. Making or using a slide on ice or snow (answer)
The provision concerns dangerous or obstructive street slides. It is not a blanket nationwide ban on sledging.

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