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Aiders, abettors, etc.
Liability of
directors and officers of company.
Obstruction of police officers and others.
Saving.
drawn, written or otherwise inscribed in, on, to or against the building or place or the part of a building or place or the vehicle, tranicar or vessel, as the case may be.
7. (1) Any person who aids, abets, counsels, causes, pro- cures, commands or incites the commission of any offence under these regulations shall be guilty of such offence and shall be liable to the punishment prescribed therefor.
(2) Any person convicted of conspiring to commit any offence under these regulations shall be liable to the punishment prescribed for that offence,
& (1) Every director and officer of a company which com- mits an offence under these regulations shall be guilty of the like offence and shall be liable to the punishment prescribed therefor unless he shows to the satisfaction of the court that at the time he did not know and ought not reasonably to have known that the offence was being committed.
(2) No prosecution for an offence under paragraph (1) shall be instituted without the consent of the Attorney General,
9. Any person who obstructs any police officer, or any police officer or other person assisting any police officer, in the exercise of any power conferred on him by these regulations shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for two years.
10. Nothing in these regulations shalt derogate from of in any way restrict or affect any power conferred on any follo officer by or under any law or the operation of any other law.
INTERPRETATION AND GENERAL CLAUSES
ORDINANCE. (Chapter 1).
MERCHANT SHIPPING (ALIENS EMPLOYMENT) ORDINANCE.
(Chapter 80).
In exercise of the power conferred by section 63 of the Interpretation and General Clauses Ordinance. His Excellency the Governor has delegated to the Deputy Director of Marine the power to exercise on his behalf the power vested in him to grant valid Certificates of exemption conferred by the proviso to sub- section (1) of section 2 of the Merchant Shipping (Aliens Employment Ordinance (Chapter 80).
By Command,
25th May 1967. (Secretarist GR 9/5061/64)
n. N. moving Cause
Colonial Secretary.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
1st June 1967.
Clerk of Councils.
Explanatory Note,
(This Note is not part of the regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purport).
These Emergency Regulations are intended to enable Governmcat, where necessary, to take effective action against any poster containing any incitement to violence and law-breaking, attempts to spread disaffection and to undermine the loyalty of the Police Force and the Public Service, or to stir up ill-will in the community.
2. Powers are conferred on the Police to take action to seize offending posters and to remove or obliterate them. The Regulations permit the Courts to rule on whether or not any poster was inflammatory in the event of prosecutions being instituted.