Offences
against
Ordinance
Any person can be quilty of offence against
the Ordinance if he contravenes or permits contravention
of conditons laid down on a licence or publicizes a
meeting or procession which is not licensed or neglects to obey orders and instructions given by the Police, 12(2).
Any gatherings of persons shall be deemed
to be an unlawful assembly when not having a licence or
when three or more persons choose to neglect or refuse to
obey an order given by the Police in accordance with the
Ordinance. 12 (2).
Interference
by police
and
arbitrary
arrest
justified
Every person involved in unlawful assembly
defined as such shall be guilty of an offense and liable
to heavy sentence.
12(3).
Meetings and processions are liable to
interference by people with special intention and innocent persons in licensed meetings are subjected to arbitrary arrest by the Police.
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The overbroad definitions of terms and
overwhelming“ power given to the Police will subject every
human group activity in Hong Kong to Police interference and every person is liable to offences against the
Ordinance unless he isolates himself,
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Selective
application
by Police
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These did not happen due to the selective
application of the Ordinance by the Police. Most of the
groups prosecuted under this part were either defending
their own rights from interference by the Government
or wealthy people or had some political overtone in their
acts. A common feature is that their acts embarassed
the Government:
1971--- Anti-Japanese demonstration by
post secondary students and worker against the occupation
of Diao Yu Tai Islands by the Japanese.
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