a good cause would have an "exouse" to collect donations
without a permit from the Social Welfare Department. If that
argument is accepted, there would be people collecting in
the streets for the control of pollution, to promote nuclear
disarmament, to protect endangered wild-life species and for
other "good" or "worthy" causes, and they would all have the
excuse" provided for under Section 4. Surely this is not
what the Legislature intended.
I say that in order to have an excuse under Section 4,
the activity must be both "necessary" and "justified" in the
circumstances.
I must stress here that I am in total agreement with
Mr. FUN when he said that "each case must be considered in
reference to its own circumstancos".
My rulings in this case relate to the circumstances
of this case, It should not be taken to mean that anyone in future using a loudhailer in public without authorisation doss
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to its own frota.
Having considered all the evidence in relation to each
of those remaining summonses separately, I found that the Prosecution had proved their case on each beyond a reasonable
doubt.