PEACE PRESERVATION.
No. 10 of 1886.
No. 10 of 1886.
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[Originally No. 15 of 1886.
An Ordinance to make provision for the preservation of the
public peace.
[2nd June, 1886.]
No. 18 of 1929.
No. 30 of 1931.
No. 2 of 1933.
No. 32 of 1935.
No. 33 of 1936.
Law Rev. Ord., 1937.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Peace Preservation Ordinance, 1886.
PART I.
SPECIAL CONSTABLES.
2. Whenever it appears to the Governor that any tumult or riot has taken place or may be reasonably apprehended, and that the ordinary officers appointed for preserving the peace are not sufficient therefor, it shall be lawful for the Governor to authorize any magistrate to summon, by writing in Form No. 1 in the First Schedule, before him, any number of persons resident or being then within the Colony, then and there to be appointed and to act as special constables so long as the said authority remains in force: Provided that it shall be lawful for the said magistrate, if it appears to him, upon the oath of any person, that there is good and sufficient cause to believe that any person intended to be appointed a special constable is concealing himself in order to avoid service of the summons or that he is likely to disobey the same, to issue a warrant, in Form No. 2 in the First Schedule, in the first instance, for the purpose of bringing before him such person so to be appointed.
3. Every special constable shall have the same powers for the preservation of the peace, the prevention of offences, the apprehension of offenders, and for all other purposes, and the same privileges, protection, and immunities, as the members of
* See also No. 41 of 1932 [Magistrates], s. 90, and No. 2 of 1933 [Arms and Ammunition], s. 26.
+ As amended by Law Rev. Ord., 1937,
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