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EMERGENCY (DETENTION ORDERS)

REGULATIONS, 1956.

(G.N.A, 104/56),

EMERGENCY (Review of Detention ORDERS} (AMENDMENT) RULES, 1956.

In exercise of the powers conferred by regulation 5 of the Emergency (Detention Orders) Regulations, 1956, the Governor

in Council has made the following rules-

1. These rules may be cited as the Emergency (Review of Citation. Detention Orders) (Amendment) Rules, 1956.

2. The Emergency (Review of Detention Orders) Rules, Addition 1956, (hereinafter referred to as the principal rules) are amended by the addition after rule 3 of the following new rule- "Hearing 4. Upon a notice being forwarded to the of objec- tions.

of new

rule 4.

(G.N.A. 108/66).

3.

Chairman of a Committee in accordance with rule 3, the Committee shall hear the person by whom the notice was given or, in the discretion of the Committee, any counsel or solicitor representing such person, and any witness to such extent as the Committee considers reasonable, and shall consider the objections made.".

Rules 4, 5, 6 and 7 of the principal rules are amended by Renum- being renumbered rules 5, 6, 7 and 8 respectively.

MILIZZ

bering of ras 4, 5, 6 and 7.

Council ChamBER,

Clerk of Councils.

6th December, 1956,

Explanatory Note.

(This Note is not part of the rules but is intended to indicate their general purport).

These rules introduce into the Emergency (Review of Detention Orders) Rules, 1966, a new rule 4 dealing with the hearing of objections made by a person detained under the Emergency (Detention Orders) Regulations, 1966. The new rule was inadvertently omitted when the principal rules were submitted for enactment.

(Secretariat 27/3231/56)