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Control of public gatherings.
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appears to usurp the functions of the police or the armed forces of the Crown; or
(b) organized and trained or organized and equipped for the purpose of enabling them to be employed for the use or display of physical force in promoting any political object, or in such manner as to arouse reasonable apprehension that they are organized and either trained or equipped for that purpose.
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(i) any person who is a member or adherent of such society shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for three years; and
(k) any person who takes part in the control or management of such society, or in organizing or training or equipping as aforesaid any members or adherents of the society, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on con- viction on indictment to imprisonment for ten years and on summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for five years.
(2) Tu any criminal proceedings under this section, proof of things done or of words spoken, written or published, whether or not in the presence of a party to the proceedings, by any person taking part in the control or management of a society or in organizing, training or equipping members or adherents of a society shall be admissible as evidence of the purposes for which, or the manner in which, members or adherents of the society (whether those persons or others) were organized or trained or equipped.
PART IIL
CONTROL OF PUBLIC MEETINGS AND PROCESSIONS.
6. The Commissioner of Police may, if it appears to him to be necessary or expedient in the interests of public order so to do. in such manner as he may think fit by order—
(a) notwithstanding the issue of any permit under paragraph (29) of section 4 of the Summary Offences Ordinance, control and direct the extent to which music may be play- ed, or to which music or human speech or any other sound may be amplified, broadcast, relayed, or otherwise reproduced by artificial means, in public places;
(6) control and direct the conduct of all public gatherings and specify the route by which, and the time at which, any public procession may pass;
(c) for any of the purposes aforesaid, give or issue such
orders as he may consider necessary or expedient.
7. (1) No public meeting and no public procession shall take place save under und in accordance with the terms and conditions of a licence in that behalf issued under this section, and no public meeting and no public procession shall be adver- tised or otherwise publicized unless such a licence therefor has been issued.
(2) Any person wishing to hold, convene, organize or form a public meeting or a public procession shall make application for a licence in that behalf to the Commissioner of Police not less than seven days before the public meeting or public procession is to be held, convened, organized or formed and the Commissioner of Police shall, if he is satisfied that the public mesting or public procession is not likely to prejudice the maintenance of public order or be used for any unlawful or immoral purpose, issue a licence in writing in such form as he may determine, specifying the name of the licensee and defining the conditions on which the public meeting or public procession may take place.
(3) The Commissioner of Police may attach to a licence issued under subsection (2) such conditions as he may think fit.
(4) Without prejudice to the provisions of subsection (2), the Commissioner of Police may refuse to grant a licence under this section if
(a) the applicant or any person or society associated directly or indirectly with the application or likely in the opinion of the Commissioner of Police to be concerned in the holding, convening, organizing or forming of the public meeting or public procession has, in relation to any public gathering, at any time contravened the provisions of this Ordinance or of any other law or any condition of a licence issued under this Ordinance or any other law; or (6) the public meeting or public procession has been adver- tised or otherwise publicized in contravention of sub- section (1).
(5) This section shall not apply to-
(a) any public meeting exclusively for religious purposes;
Licensing of public meetings and public processions.