Closing of
closed area, and powers of police officers.
Obstruction of police officers.
Saving.
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(1) The Commissioner of Police or such other person as may be prescribed in respect of the closed area by the order under regulation 3 may cause any closed area to be closed by the erection of barriers or otherwise.
(2) Any police officer of the rank of inspector or above, with the assistance of such other police officers as may be necessary, may
(a) remove from a closed area all or any persons who are
in the same without permission or authority; and
(b) detain any person who is in a closed area without per- mission or authority for such time as may be necessary-
(i) for his orderly removal therefrom; or
(i) for the purpose of preventing such person from destroying, damaging or interfering with any thing therein or with any manufacture, process or other undertaking carried on therein, or from obstructing or intimidating any person ongaged in such manufacture, process of other undertaking, pending his removal therefrom.
6. Any person who obstructs any police officer in the exercise of any power conferred upon 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 three years.
7. Nothing in these regulations shall derogate from or in any way restrict or affect any power conferred on any poties officer by or under any other law of the operation of any other law.
The Regulations empower the Governor to declare any building or area to be a closed area. The effect of this is that no one may enter or be in the building or are without permission or authority. Police offlesra are afforded power to remove any person who is unlawfully in a closed area and to detain them in the meantime.
(Secretarial CR. 6/3231/591)
Clerk of Councils.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
23rd June 1967.
Explanatory Note.
(This Note is not part of the Regulations, but is intended to indicate their general purpper).
These regulations are designed primarily to enable steps to be taken to protect the security of premises used in the provision of essential services, such as the supply of electricity and gas, the telephone service and the waterworks, and thus to ensure the maintenance of such services in the public interest.