8. Any person knowingly allowing an unlawful assembly, or a meeting or assembly contrary to the provisions of this Ordinance, to be held in any house, building, or place belonging to or occupied by him or over which he has control, shall be liable on summary conviction before a Magistrate to a penalty not exceeding five hundred dollars or to six months' imprisonment with or without hard labour, or to both.
9. The words "Member of a Society" shall denote a person who, having been admitted therein according to the Rules and Regulations thereof, shall have paid an entrance fee or a subscription, or shall have attended two or more meetings of the Society as a member, or shall have signed the roll or list of members of the society, or otherwise shall have become recognised as a member by the Rules and Regulations of the Society, and shall not have resigned or withdrawn from or been expelled from the Society, such registration, withdrawal or expulsion having been recorded in the minutes of the proceedings of the Society, and shall include all managers and office bearers.
10. When any of the banners, insignia, or writings of any society declared to be unlawful under this Ordinance are found in the possession, custody, or control of any person, it shall be presumed, till the contrary is shown by such person, that he is a member of such unlawful society.
11. This Ordinance shall not apply to any duly constituted Masonic Lodge.
12. No person shall be considered as coming within the provisions or intent of this Ordinance who shall have joined the Triad or any other Secret Society in ignorance of their designs or under the influence of terror.
13. Ordinances 1 and 12 of 1845 are hereby repealed.
Persons allowing unlawful assembly in their premises. (Straits Settlement Ord. 18 of 1889, s. 13)
Penalty
Members of a society. (Straits Settlement Ord. 1 of 1890, s. 25)
Presumptive proof of membership. (Straits Settlement Ord. of 1885)
Lodges excluded
Persons joined in ignorance.
Repeal
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