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"(4) The provisions of this section are in
addition to and not in derogation from the
provisions of any other law requiring the licensing
of public zeetings.".
(Cap. 245; sub. leg.)
(8) The Public Order Curfew (Consolidation) Order is amended
by deleting the second sentence in paragraph 2.
Transitional provisions.
56.
Any permit issued under Part II of the repealed Public
Order Ordinance allowing the person to whom it was issued to
enter and leave a closed area shall, if it is in force at the
commencement of this Ordinance, be deened to have been issued
under section 37.
Objects and Reasons.
At present, the law dealing with public order is to be
found in the Public Order Ordinance, the Peace Preservation
Ordinance and the Summary Offences Ordinance, and in the common
law.
2.
The object of this Bill is to consolidate into one
Ordinance the various provisions dealing with public order and to
strengthen the law where experience shows that to be desirable.
Clause 3, in Part II of the Bill, is new and empowers
3.
a police officer of or above the rank of inspector to prohibit
the display of flags, banners or emblems if their display is in
his opinion likely to lead to a breach of the peace.
4.
Part III of the Bill is concerned with the control
of meetings, processions and gatherings. Clauses 7, 8, 9 and 10
introduce comprehensive provisions dealing with the licensing of
public meetings and processions and replace the inadequate
provisions in section 4(16) and (20) of the Summary Offences
Ordinance.
Clause 7 reproduces the existing law prohibiting the
convening or holding of a public meeting or public procession
without a licence, other than a meeting exclusively for religious