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No. 130.
Regulations made by the Governor in Council under section 2 of the Emergency Regulations Ordinance, 1922, Ordinance No. 5 of 1922, on the 3rd day of March, 1927.
Prohibition of Meetings and Processions.
1. It shall be lawful for the Governor in Council, by order published in the Gazette, to prohibit the holding of any proposed meeting, which, in his opinion, is likely to be conducted in a seditious or disorderly manner, or at or during which, in his opinion, seditious or disorderly utterances are likely to be made or seditious or disorderly matter is likely to be exhibited or used, or at or during which a general strike is likely to be advocated or promoted.
2. No person shall take part in any meeting so prohibited, and no person shall without lawful authority or excuse be present at any meeting so prohibited.
3. It shall be lawful for any police officer to use any force, and to effect any entry, which may appear to be reasonably necessary for the purpose of preventing the holding of any meeting so prohibited, or for the purpose of dispersing any meeting so prohibited, and also to search any premises entered and to seize any thing which may appear to be evidence of any offence.
4.-(1) In any case in which he may consider that the urgency of the occasion so requires it shall be lawful for the Governor, without consulting the Executive Council and without publication of the order in the Gazette, to prohibit the holding of any proposed meeting, which, in his opinion, is likely to be conducted in a seditious or disorderly manner, or at or during which, in his opinion, seditious or disorderly matter is likely to be exhibited or used, or at or during which a general strike is likely to advocated or promoted.
(2) It shall be lawful for any police officer to use any force, and to effect any er which may appear to be reasonably necessary for the purpose of preventing the hold of any meeting so prohibited, or for the purpose of dispersing any meeting so prohibit and also to search any premises entered and to seize any thing which may appear to evidence of any offence.
(3) Any such order may be proved in any legal proceedings by the production of certificate under the hand of the Colonial Secretary, and judicial notice shall be taken of such signature on such certificate.
5. In these regulations,
(a) "Meeting" includes every assembly, gathering, celebration, service and
ceremony, whether open to the public or not, and every procession.
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(b) "Seditious matter" has the same meaning as in the Seditious Publications Ordinance, 1914, and seditious utterances means utterances which if reduced to writing would be seditious matter.
COUNCIL CHAMBER,
D. W. TRATMAN,
Clerk of Councils.
3rd March, 1927.
(Extract from the Hong Kong Government Gazette No. 10 of the 4th March, 1927.)
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