[<f. 1 Edw. 8 & 1 Geo. 6. & 12, 23.1
Ordinance No. 5 of 1922.
Provided that a person shall not be deemed to be an enemy by reason only of his taking part in or peacefully persuading any other person to take part in a strike;
"essential service" means any undertaking, require- ment of or service to the community which in the opinion of the Governor signified by notification in the Gazette, is of public utility or essential to the life of the community;
"explosive substance" includes all explosive and blasting explosives, and it shall also include sodium nitrate (Chilian nitrate), ammonium nitrate, nitro naphthalenes, nitro benzines, nitro toluenes, nitro glycerines, nitro glucoses, mitro celluloses and nitro phenols;
"firearm" means any lethal barrelled weapon of any description from which any shot, bullet or other missile can be discharged, and includes any component part of any such weapon, and any accessory to any such weapon designed or adapted to diminish the noise or flash caused by firing the weapon;
"land" includes land of any category or tenure whether covered by water or not and any erection, tree or other thing fixed thereto and any shed, barn or other structure which although affixed to land (which has been or is being requisitioned) in such a manner as to be removable therefrom a competent authority specifies is required for use in connection with such land;
"meeting" includes every assembly, entertainment, gathering, celebration, service and ceremony, whether open to the public or not, and every procession;
**newspaper" means any publication containing news, intelligence, reports of occurrences, or any remarks, observations or comments, in relation to such news, intelligence, or occurrences, or to any other matter of public interest, printed for sale or free distribution at regular or irregular intervals and includes a supplement thereto;
"Ordinance" means the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922;
"pamphlet" means an unbound printed document of one or more pages or parts attached together and containing an exposition on some matter of current or topical or political interest;
"periodical publication" includes every publication Essued periodically or in parts or numbers at intervals whether regular or irregular;
"photograph" includes any photographic plate, photographic film or other sensitized article which has been or olherwise treated so as to record information, whether it has been developed or not;
"possession", in relation to arms, ammunition [cf,
Ordinance and explosive substance means arms, ammunition and explosive No. 2 of substance found on the body, or in the custody or under the 1933, a. 2.] control, of any person;
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"postal packet" means a letter, post-card, reply post-card, newspaper, printed packet, pattern or sample packet or parcel, and every packet or article transmissible by post;
"printing" includes lithography, typewriting, photo- graphy, and all other modes of representing or reproducing words, igures, signs, pictures, maps, designs, illustrations and other like matter.
"printing press" includes every machine and apparatus used or intended to be used for the printing of any newspaper, book or pamphlet or for the printing, production or reproduction for gain or reward of any printed matter;
"protected place" has the same meaning as in the Protected Places (Safety) Ordinance, 1945;
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"public interest" includes the interests of defence or 1946. of the preservation of public order, safety or health or of the provision or maintenance of supplies and services essential to the life of the community;
"publication" includes all written or printed matter and every thing whether of a nature similar to printed matter or hot, containing any visible representation, or, by its form, shape, or in any manner capable of suggesting words or ideas, and every copy and reproduction of any publication;
communicate;
**publish" includes circulate,
disperse and
"requisition" means, in relation to any property, take possession of the property or require the property to be placed at the disposal of the requisitioning authority;
"safeguard" means any authorized guard when on duty as an authorized guard or any member of His Majesty's Forces, or any member of any local naval, military, air force or