1967-HKRS30-8-57_Part03 — Page 11

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"vehicle" has the meaning that it has for the purposes of the Road Traffic Ordinance and also means a bicycle, cart, truck or barrow.

3. (1) For the purpose of preventing the dissemination of any inflammatory matter, any police officer of or above the rank of inspector, with the assistance of such other police officers as may be necessary, may-

(a) enter and search any building or place if he knows or has reason to suspect that the building or place or any part thereof is being or has been used for the uttering of any inflammatory speech;

(b) stop, board and search any vessel or stop and search any vehicle if he knows or has reason to suspect that the same is being or has been used for the uttering of any inflammatory speech;

(c) seize, remove and detain any thing whatsoever if he knows or has reason to suspect that the same is being or has been used for or in connexion with the uttering of any inflammatory speech; and

(d) seize, remove and detain any thing which appears to him to be or to contain or to be likely to be, or to contain, evidence of an offence under these regulations,

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Rendering equipment incapable of being used.

Any police officer may-

(a) break open any outer or inner door of any building or place that he is empowered by these regulations to enter and search;

(5) remove by force any person or thing obstructing any detention, search, seizure or removal that he is empower- ed by these regulations to make:

(c) detain any person found in any building, or place that be is empowered by these regulations to search until the same has been searched; and

(d) detain any vessel or vehicle that he is empowered by these regulations to search until the same has been searched.

4. (1) Any police officer of or above the rank of assistant superintendent may, with the assistance of such other police officers or other persons as may be necessary, take such steps or do such things or cause such steps to be taken or such things to be done as he considers necessary to ensure that any thing which is being or has been or may be used for or in connexion with the uttering of any inflammatory speech is not capable of being used for the time being.

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(2) Any person who interferes with any step taken or thing done under paragraph (1) or restores any thing so that it is capable of being used 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.

5. Any person who utters an inflammatory speech shall ba guilty of an offence and shall be liable-

(a) on conviction on indictment, to a fine of fifty thousand

dollars and to imprisonment for ten years; and

(8) on summary conviction, to a fine of five thousand dollars

and to imprisonment for three years.

6. (1) The owner, occupier and person in charge of any building, or any part of any building, which is used for the uttering of any inflammatory speech shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable-

(a) on conviction on indictment, to a fine of fifty thousand

dollars and to imprisonment for ten years; and

(6) on summary conviction, to a fine of ten thousand dollars

and to imprisonment for three years.

(2) It shall be a defence in any proceedings for an offence under paragraph (I) if the accused shows to the satisfaction of the court that be bad taken all reasonable care to prevent the commission of the offence.

Uttering inflammatory speech.

Use of building For uttering inflammatory speech.

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7. (1) Any person who aids, abets, counsels, causes, pro- cures, commands or incites the commission of any offence under abettors, etc. 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.

Liability of directors und officers of

8. (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 company. unless be shows to the satisfaction of the court that at the time be 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.