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Prohibition of 3. Any person who in any public place or at any public meeting uniforms in wears uniform signifying his association with any political organisation with political Or with the promotion of any political object still be guilty of an offence: Provided that it the Commissioner of Police is satisfied that the wearing of any such uniform as aforesaid on any ceremonial anniversary or other special occasion will not be likely to involve risk of public disorder, he may permit the wearing of Buch uniform on that occasion either absolutely or subject to such conditions as he may specify.

objects. lef. Edw. * Geo. 6, C.6, 5.1.]

Prohibition of

4. (1) the members or adherents of any association of quasi-military persons, whether registered or incorporated or not, are

organisations.

[cy. Edw.8

(a) organised or trained or equipped for the purpose of & Geo. 6, eaubling them to be employed in usurping the functions of the police

or the armed forces of the Crown;

c.6, 3.2.]

Peoalty on

cadeavour to break up public mccding.

@ Edw. 7. c.66, .c.

(b) organised and trained or organised and equipped for the purpose of enabling them to be employed for the use or display of physical force in promoting any political object, er in such manner as to arouse reasonable apprehension that they are organized and either trained or equipped for that purpose;

then any person who takes part in the control or management of the association or in organising or training as aforesaid any members or adberents thereof shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) lo any criminal proceeding under this section proof of things done or of words spoken, written or published by any persou taking part in the control or management of an association or in organising, training or equipping members or adherents of an associa- tion shall be admissible as evidence of the purposes for which, or the manner in which, members or adherents of the association (whether those persons or others) were organised, or trained, or equipped.

(B) la magistrate is satisfied by an information on oath that there is reasonable ground for suspecting that an offence under this section has been committed, and that evidence of the commission thereof is to be found at any premises or place specified in the infor mation, he may, upon an application made by an officer not below the rank of Sub-Inspector, grant a search warrant authorising any such officer as aforesaid named in the warrant and any other officers of police to enter the premises or place at any time within 14 days of the warrant, if necessary by force, and to search the premises or place and every person found therein, and to seize anything found on the premises or place or on any such person which the officer has reasonable ground for suspecting to be evidence of the commission of such an offence as aforesaid! Provided that a

woman shall be searched by a woman.

5. (1) Any person who at a lawful public meeting acts in o disorderly manner for the purpose of preventing the transaction of the business for which the meeting was called togather or incites others so to act shall be guilty of an offence.

(2) Tf any coustable reasonably suspects any person of [ef, 1 Edw.3 committing an offence under this section," he may, if requested so to 1 Geo. 6,

2.6, 1.6.] do by the chairman of the meeting, require that person to declaro to him immediately his name and address and if that person refuses or fails so to declare his name and address or given a false name and address be shall be guilty of an offence and if the constable suspects him of giving a false name and address, the constable ruay arrest him without a warrant.

(a) rioting, assault or other breach of the peace or peace on

Security for keeping the

conviction.

Criminal

6. (1) Whenever any person accused of—

abetting the same;

(b) assembling armed men or baking other unlawful Procedure measures with the intention of committing any such offence as is Settlement. specified in paragraph: (a);

(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 bood for keeping the peace, such Court or magistrate may, at the time of passing sentence or in lieu of say sentence, order him to execute a bond for a aum 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 bood so executed shall be null and void.

that

Code, Soraiu

1.73.

Whenever it appears to a magistrate receiving information Security,

for good

presenes

Behaviour from suspected persona, el..

(4) any person is taking preceptions to conceal his in the Colony and there is reason to believe such person is taking and from such precautions with a view to committing an offence; or

diseminating

persons

(b) there is within the Colony a person who cannot give a seditious antisfactory account of himself; or

acting or

marter dr

Nct to the

(c) there is within the Colopy any person who within or about to without the Colony either orally or in writing disseminates or attempts prejudice of to disseminate or in any way abuts the dissemination of any soditious w god mutter, that is to say, any matter the publication of which is punish- order. able under section 4 of the Sedition Ordinance, 1999; or

fey. Criminal Procedure Code, Straite Settlements, 6.75.]

(d) any person has committed, or is about to commit or attempt to commit, any act calculated to interfere with the admini- stration of the law or with the maintenance of law and order; Ordinance No. 13 of

such magistrate may, in manner hereinafter provided, require such 1938. person to show cause why he should not be ordered to execute a bond with sureties for his good behaviour for a period not exceeding two years.