BOYCOTT PREVENTION.
No. 41 of 1912.
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commit or to aid, abet, incite, or induce any person or persons to commit any offence against the provisions of this Ordinance and having entered upon such premises to search for the same and any such printed, written, or otherwise produced documents, papers, matter, or pictorial representations so found on such premises shall be thereupon seized by such police officer or person and shall be forthwith, as soon as may be, taken by such police officer or person before a magistrate who shall if he is of the opinion that such printed, written, or otherwise produced documents, papers, matter, or pictorial representations are intended or calculated to persuade or 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.
of boycotting area.
*
9.(1) The Governor in Council may whenever it shall Proclamation appear to him desirable for the prevention, detection, or punishment of 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.
rate in
(2) Upon any such area being declared to be a boycotting Levy of area in manner provided in sub-section (1), the Governor in special Council may order by proclamation published in the Gazette proclaimed that a special rate be levied upon such proclaimed area.
arca.
amount
(3) Any such order for the levy and payment of a special Order to rate as aforesaid shall prescribe the amount of such rate, the prescribe class or classes of property upon which such rate shall be and mode levied, and the period for which such rate shall be levied.
of levy.
rate.
(4) The payment of any special rate imposed under the Payment provisions of this section shall be made and shall be capable of special of being enforced in the same manner as are rates levied under the provisions of the Rating Ordinance, 1901: Ordinance Provided however that, notwithstanding any express or No. 6 of 1901. 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.
* As amended by Law Rev. Ordl., 1924.