The text of the byelaw banning spitting in the LBE is as follows:
Byelaws made under section 235 of the Local Government Act 1972 by Council of the London Borough of Enfield for the good rule and government of the London Borough of Enfield and for the prevention and suppression of nuisances.
Application
1. This byelaw applies throughout the London Borough of Enfield.
2. No person shall spit in, into or from any relevant place without reasonable excuse.
3. No offence shall be committed where the spitting is done within a handkerchief, tissue, bin, spittoon or other similar receptacle for the purpose of proper disposal.
Interpretation
4. In this byelaw:
- a place is a "relevant place" if it is open to the air, save where the public does not have access to it, with or without payment;
and - a place shall be deemed to be "open to the air" notwithstanding that it is covered if it is open to the air on at least one side.
Penalty
5. Any person offending against this byelaw shall be liable on a summary conviction to a fine not exceeding level 2 on the standard scale.
Enfield Council are reportedly planning to focus enforcement on shopping centres, but have also written to all organisations that book sports pitches to remind them of the new byelaw. They have stated that if spitting becomes a "major problem" in parks they might target them also.
