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No. 8 of 1920.

SOCIETIES.

Evidence.

of the peace or by any public officer accompanied by a justice of the peace.

(4) No person shall resist or obstruct any such search, arrest or seizure.

(5) It shall be lawful for a magistrate to forfeit anything duly seized under any power conferred by or under this section.

7.(1) When any books, accounts, lists of members, writ- ings, banners, insignia, seals or other things whatsoever, which may reasonably be suspected to belong to or to be connected. with or to be intended to be used for the purposes of an unlawful society, are found in the possession or under the control of any person, it shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed that such person is a member of an unlawful society.

(2) When it appears to a magistrate that there is reason- able cause to suspect that any place entered and searched under any power conferred by or under this Ordinance was immediately before or at the time of such entry being used by or for the purposes of an unlawful society, it shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed that all persons found in such place at any time during such search, or found escaping therefrom immediately before or at the time of such entry, are members of an unlawful society.

(3) In any prosecution under this Ordinance, it shall not be necessary to prove the name of the unlawful society, or to prove that it has any name.

(4) In any prosecution under this Ordinance, it shall be no objection to the admissibility of expert evidence that the expert is not or has not been a member of any unlawful society.

(5) In any prosecution under this Ordinance, the magistrate may refer, for the purposes of evidence, to "The Triad Society or Heaven and Earth Association by William Stanton, and to any other published books or articles on the subject of unlawful societies in general or of particular unlawful societies, which the magistrate may consider to be of authority on the subject to which they relate.