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BANKING ORDINANCE: Section 10
This provides that if anyone who has been a director of, or concerned in the management of, a bank which has been wound up by a court, or who has been sentenced to imprisonment for an offence involving dishonesty acts, without the authorisation of the Governor, as a director or is concerned in the management of a bạnk he is committing an offence. There is no comparable provision in England whereby without an order of a court a person is precluded from noting as a director except that an undischarged bankrupt may not act as a director without the consent of a court.
CRIMINAL OFFENCES ORDINANCE: Sections 184 and 185
Section 184 gives the Governor in Council power to prohibit the importation of any publication which he considers would be contrary to the public interest. In addition to the offences oreated by section 185(1) of importing, having in one's possession for cale eto, section 185(2) makos it an offence merely to be in possession without lawful excuse, of a prohibited publication. There is no power in the United Kingdom for the oxecutive to ban the importation of any particular publication and mere possession of a publication which is obscene or seditious under the laws of that county is not an offence.
HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY (POWERS AND PRIVILEGES) ORDINANCE Sections 15, 13 and 22.
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Section 15 makes it an offence to interfere with a witness in regard to evidence which is to be given by him to the Assembly or to threaten or punish him after he has given such evidence. Hly understanding is that in the United Kingdom such conduct is dealt with by Parliament itself 1.e. it is a contempt of Parliament and is not an offence which is dealt with in the criminal courts. The Witnena (Publio inquiries Protection) Act, 1882 in similar to our 15(b) but the punishment under that Act is a maximum of three months imprisonment. Beotion 10 makes it en offence to offer any reward, bribo ato to a menbor of the lowo in renpret of the promotion of, or opponition to, any mattor before the House. I doubt whether this is a criminal offence in the United Kingdom end consider that it is a matter which, Parliament would deal with itself. Section 23 creates certain offences auch no publishing without leave a report of proceedings which are not being held in public, libelling tho Assembly, printing an Ordinance purporting to have been printed by the Government printors, etc. Again these offences would be dealt with in the United Kingdom by Parliament itself and are not created offences by statute.
MARRIAGE: Section 33
This section creates an offence of the Marriage Registrar or a Minister issuing a certificate for marriage of any persons being within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity: I can find no comparable offence in the United Kingdom.
MERCHANT SHIPFING: Section 20 and 59
Section 29 which creates certain offences including making a false report of character is based on a section which has now been repealed of the United Kinglom's Herchant Shipping Act, 18941 there is no similar offences now existing. Section (3) makes it an offence to destroy, mutilate or render illegible, any entry in an official log book, or to make a false entry in ar omission from a log book.
WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY: Section 5
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This section was taken from an old colonial precedent and does not appear to be based on any United Kingdom Act. It creates the offence of injuring, removing eto any apparatus or installation for wireless telegraphy and of obstructing or preventing the sending or receipt of any mesange by wireless telography. In no far as injuring is concerned a comparable offence in the United Kingdom would be committed against the Criminal Damage Aat, 1971, but I have been unable to find any comparable provisions in the United Kingdom as to the other offences created by this section 1.9, preventing the sending or receipt of a moanage.