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Combination to stop trade.
[cf. Second Schedule.]
22 of 1950, Schedule.
Flogging
for offences
during continuance of proclamation.
Second Schedule.
Peace Preservation.
11. Any person who, during the continuance of any such proclamation—
(a) unlawfully combines to procure a stoppage of the sale or transit from place to place of provisions or other articles; or
(b) unlawfully combines to procure shopkeepers, dealers, or other persons to discontinue the sale or transit from place to place of provisions or other articles; or
(c) prevents or endeavours to prevent any person from purchasing or from being supplied with any such articles,
shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine of two hundred and fifty dollars, and to imprisonment for three months.
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12. (1) Notwithstanding anything in any other Ordinance to the contrary, every male person who during the continuance of any proclamation under this Ordinance, commits any offence against any of the enactments mentioned in the Second Schedule shall, in addition to any other punishment by law provided, be liable on conviction, whether on indictment or summarily, to be flogged.
(2) In all cases where the punishment of flogging is awarded under this section the following provisions shall have effect—
(a) the sentence shall prescribe the number of strokes to be inflicted;
(b) the number of strokes shall not exceed twenty-four in the case of an offender whose age exceeds sixteen years, or twelve in the case of an offender whose age does not exceed sixteen years;
(c) the instrument used in the case of an offender whose age exceeds sixteen years shall be the instrument commonly known as the "cat" or else a light cane or rattan as the court or magistrate may specify in the sentence, and in the case of an offender whose age does not exceed sixteen years it shall be a light cane or rattan; and
(d) the flogging shall be inflicted in prison and within six months of the sentence—
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