SUPPLEMENT NO. 1, OCTOBER 29, 1948.
6. (1) Whenever any person accused of—
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Security for
keeping the
conviction. Crimina!
(a) rioting, assault or other breach of the peace or peace on abetting the same;
(b) assembling armed men or taking other unlawful Procedure measures with the intention of committing any such offence as is Code, Straits specified in paragraph (a);
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S.73. (c) committing criminal intimidation by threatening in- jury to person or property;
is convicted of such offence, and the Court or magistrate before which such person is convicted is of opinion that it is necessary to require such person to execute a bond for keeping the peace, such Court or magistrate may, at the time of passing sentence or in lieu of any sentence, order him to execute a bond for a sum proportionate to his means with or without sureties for keeping the peace during such period, in each instance, as it thinks fit to fix, not exceeding two years. (2) If the conviction is set aside on appeal or otherwise, the bond so executed shall be null and void.
7. Whenever it appears to a magistrate receiving information Security that-
for good behaviour
(a) any person is taking precautions to conceal his presence from suspected in the Colony and there is reason to believe such person is taking persons, etc., such precautions with a view to committing an offence; or
and from
persons
seditious
(b) there is within the Colony a person who cannot give a disseminating satisfactory account of himself; or
(c) there is within the Colony any person who within or matter or acting or without the Colony either orally or in writing disseminates or attempts about to to disseminate or in any way abets the dissemination of any seditious act to the matter, that is to say, any matter the publication of which is punish- prejudice of able under section 4 of the Sedition Ordinance, 1938; or
law and order.
(d) any person has committed, or is about to commit or [cf. Criminal attempt to commit, any act calculated to interfere with the admini- Procedure stration of the law or with the maintenance of law and order;
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such magistrate may, in manner hereinafter provided, require such s.76.] person to show cause why he should not be ordered to execute a Ordinance bond with sureties for his good behaviour for a period not exceeding No. 13 of
1938. two years.
8. (1) When a person is required to show cause under sections Order to be 6 and 7, the magistrate shall make an order in writing setting forth- made.
required.
(a) the substance of the information received; (b) the amount of the bond to be executed;
(c) the term for which it is in force;
(d) the number, character and class of sureties, if any,
Criminal Procedure Code, Straits Settlements, s.78.
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If the person is in Court, the order shall be read over to him and, if Criminal necessary, the substance explained. If he is not in Court, the Procedure magistrate shall bring him before it by summons or by warrant as he Code, Straits deems appropriate in the circumstances of the case. Every summons or warrant issued shall be accompanied by a copy of the order and 81. such copy shall be delivered by the officer executing the process.
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