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74.-(1) Every person who prints, publishes, or offers for sale any printed or written newspaper or other publication containing seditious matter, may, on conviction thereof, in addition to, or in lieu of, any other punishment, be ordered to give security for good behaviour or to be deported.
(2) Where any printed or written newspaper or other publica- tion containing seditious matter is printed, published, or offered for sale within the limits of this Order by a company incorporated under the laws of any part of His Majesty's dominions or of any territory under His protection, the Court may, after notice to the company, and on proof of the facts, require the company to give security to abstain from such printing, publishing, or offering for sale in future. If the company fail to give security, or if the company is shown to have again printed, published, or offered for sale such newspaper or other publication containing seditious matter after giving such security, the Court may make an order prohibiting the company from carrying on business within the limits of this Order, and may make such other orders as to the Court may seem just. The Court may also declare all the property of the company within the limits of this Order to be forfeited to His Majesty the King, and shall dispose of it, subject to any general or special directions of the Secretary of State, as it thinks fit.
(3) Matter calculated to excite tumult or disorder in Egypt or in His Majesty's dominions or in territories under His protection or mandate, or to excite enmity between His Majesty's subjects and the Egyptian Government or its subjects, or the authorities or subjects, being within the limits of this Order, of any Power in amity with His Majesty, or between the Egyptian Govern- ment and its subjects, shall be deemed to be seditious matter within the meaning of this Article.
(4) An offence against this Article shall not be tried except on a charge and by the Supreme Court.
(5) Notwithstanding anything in this Order, the charge may, for reasons to be recorded in the minutes, be heard and deter- mined before a Judge sitting without a jury or assessors.
75. (1) Any person subject to this Order who:
(a) publicly derides, mocks, or insults any religion estab-
lished or observed in Egypt; or
(b) publicly offers insult to any religious service, feast, or ceremony established or kept in Egypt, or to any
place of worship, tomb, or sanctuary belonging to or revered by the followers of any religion established or observed in Egypt; or
(c) publicly and wilfully commits any act tending to bring any religion established or observed in Egypt, or its ceremonies, mode of worship, or observances, into hatred, ridicule or contempt, and thereby to provoke a breach of the public peace;
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shall, on conviction thereof before the Supreme Court or Provincial Court, be liable to imprisonment not exceeding two years, with or without hard labour, and with or without a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds, or to a fine alone not exceed- ing one hundred pounds.
(2) Notwithstanding anything in this Order, every complaint under this Article shall be heard and determined by the Court alone, without jury or assessors, and any Provincial Court shall have power to impose the punishment aforesaid.
(3) Consular officers shall take such precautionary measures as seem to them proper and expedient for the prevention of such offences.
76.-(1) Any person subject to this Order who ;—-
(a) wilfully, by act or threat, obstructs an officer of, or person executing any process of, the Court, in the performance of his duty; or
(b) within or close to the room or place where the Court is sitting wilfully misbehaves in a violent, threatening, or disrespectful manner, to the disturbance of the Court, or to the intimidation of suitors or others resorting thereto; or
(c) wilfully insults any member of the Court, or any assessor or juror, or any person acting as a clerk or officer of the Court, during his sitting or attendance in Court, or in his going to or returning from Court; or
(d) does any act in relation to the Supreme Court or a Provincial Court or a matter pending therein which, if done in relation to the High Court in England, would be punishable as a contempt of that Court; shall be guilty, in the case of the Supreme Court, or a Pro- vincial Court, of a grave offence, and in the case of a Local Court of an offence, against this Order;
Provided that the Supreme Court or a Provincial Court, if it thinks fit, instead of directing proceedings as for an offence against this Order, may order the offender to be apprehended forthwith, with or without warrant, and on inquiry and considera- tion, and after the hearing of any defence which such person may offer, without further process or trial, may adjudge him to be punished with a fine not exceeding ten pounds, or with imprison- ment not exceeding twenty-four hours, at the discretion of the Court.
(2) A Minute shall be made and kept of every such case of punishment, recording the facts of the offence and the extent of the punishment. In the case of a Provincial Court, a copy of the Minute shall be forthwith sent to the Supreme Court, and in the case of a Local Court, to the Provincial Court.
(3) Nothing herein shall interfere with the power of the Court to remove or exclude persons who interrupt or obstruct the pro- ceedings of the Court.
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