APPENDIX V
EMERGENCY REGULATIONS
MADE BETWEEN MAY AND 31ST DECEMBER 1967
(Paragraph 181)
1. The Emergency (Courts) Regulations, enacted on 23rd May, gave judges and magistrates the power to clear their courts and the buildings if they considered this necessary; and empowered the Police to remove from the precincts of the courts any person whose conduct interfered with the proper administration of justice.
2. The Emergency (Prevention of Inflammatory Speeches) Regulations, enacted on 24th May, were designed to enable effective action to be taken against vocal incitements by loudspeaker and other means to violence and law-breaking, and to undermining the loyalty of the Police.
3. The Emergency (Prevention of Inflammatory Posters) Regulations, enacted on 1st June, were directed against 'inflammatory' posters-that is posters containing incitement to violence or lawlessness or which spread disaffection or attempt to under- mine the loyalty of the Police Force or the public service or to stir up ill-will in the community. Enactment of these regulations also enabled the Police to warn the owners of property where these posters are displayed, as well as giving the Police power to remove or obliterate them.
4. The Emergency (Prevention of Intimidation) Regulations, introduced on 24th June, strengthened the law relating to criminal intimidation. These Regulations were revoked on the enactment of the Public Order Ordinance, 1967, which contains similar provisions.
5. The object of the Emergency (Closed Areas) Regulations also introduced on 24th June, was to increase the security of certain essential installations by making it an offence to enter or be in such premises without permission or authority. Only three installations-the two electricity power stations and the tramways depot-were gazetted.
6. The Emergency (Principal) Regulations (Commencement) Order, enacted on 20th July, brought into force the Emergency (Principal) Regulations Nos. 27, 41, 88, 92, 96, 107, 113, 127 and 129. These emergency regulations had been on the statute book since 1949, though none of them were in force. They were brought into force in order to meet a new phase of terrorist activity and in particular:
(a) to legalize the use of the military to reinforce the Police Force-regulations
96 and 113;
(b) to give power to the Governor and the Commissioner of Police to prohibit
assemblies if this should be necessary-regulations 107 and 127;
(c) to introduce higher penalties for the sabotage of essential services-regula-
tion 129;
(d) to impose penalties for the dissemination of false reports-regulation 27; (e) to permit the holding of trials in camera if necessary-regulation 88; (f) to permit the Governor to order the opening or closing of any class of shops
or businesses-regulation 92.
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