BOYCOTT PREVENTION.
No. 41 of 1912.
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induce any person or persons to commit or to aid, abet, incite, or induce any person or persons to commit any offence against the provisions of this Ordinance order the same to be confiscated and dealt with in such manner as he may direct.
9.-(1) The Governor-in-Council may whenever it shall appear to him desirable for the prevention, detection, or punishment of boycotting offences against the provisions of this Ordinance declare by Proclamation published in the Gazette that any area in the Colony shall be deemed to be a boycotting area.
(2) Upon any such area being declared to be a boycotting area in manner provided in the preceding sub-section the Governor-in-Council may order by Proclamation published in the Gazette that a special rate be levied upon such proclaimed area.
(3) Any such order for the levy and payment of a special rate as aforesaid shall prescribe the amount of such rate, the class or classes of property upon which such rate shall be levied, and the period for and mode of levy.
(4) The payment of any special rate imposed under the provisions of this section shall be made and shall be capable of being enforced in the same manner as are rates levied under the provisions of the Rating Ordinance, 1901, provided however that notwithstanding any express or implied agreement as to the payment of rates levied under the provisions of the Rating Ordinance, 1901, between the owner and occupier of any tenement upon which any special rate shall be levied under the provisions of this section any such special rate so levied shall be deemed to be an occupier's rate and the amount thereof, if paid by the owner, may be recovered by such owner from the occupier in an action for money paid to his use or, if such occupier is still in occupation of such tenement, by distress in the same manner as for rent.
(5) The Governor-in-Council may in his discretion exempt from the payment of any special rate levied under the provisions of this section any person who is an occupier of or owner of property in any area proclaimed as a boycotting area under the provisions of this section.
(6) It shall be lawful for the Governor-in-Council to order the payment to any person who may have incurred pecuniary loss or suffered damage by reason of any offence committed or believed by the Governor-in-Council to have been committed against the provisions...