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(2) No person who takes part in or is present at any such meeting shall contravene any such condition.
(3) No person shall take part in any meeting at or in connexion with which any such condition has been or being contravened.
(4) No person shall without lawful authority or excuse be present at any meeting at or in connexion with which any such condition has been or is being contravened.
11.—(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 make any order which might have been made by the Governor in Council under regulation 5, 6 or 10, or to prohibit the continuance of any meeting already begun.
(2) Any such order may be proved in any legal proceedings by the production of a certificate under the hand of the Colonial Secretary, and judicial notice shall be taken of such signature on such certificate.
12. It shall be lawful for any police officer to use any force, and to effect any entry or boarding, which may appear to be reasonably necessary for the purpose of preventing the holding of any meeting prohibited under or by these regulations, or for the purpose of dispersing any meeting prohibited under or by these regulations, or for the purpose of dispersing any meeting at or in connexion with which any condition prescribed under regulation 10 or 11 has been or is being contravened, and also to search any premises entered or vessel boarded, and to seize any thing which may appear to be evidence of any offence.
13. It shall be lawful for any police officer to stop, divert, divide or disperse any procession whatsoever, or any part thereof, or to divide or disperse any crowd of assembly whatsoever or any part thereof.
14. Every person taking part in any procession, crowd or assembly, shall disperse when called upon by any police officer to do so.
15. In these regulations,-
(a) "Meeting" includes every assembly, entertainment gathering, celebra- tion, 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. 1911, and seditious utterances means utterances which if reduced to writing would be seditious matter.
PREVENTION OF DISORDER.
16. The Governor in Council shall have power to proscribe within the Colony, for the purposes of these regulations, any organization whatsoever, whether such organiza- tion be within or without the Colony, which in the opinion of the Governor in Council is an organization which has among its ains, or is being used for, the promotion of a general strike, or of disorder of any kind, or of the spread of sedition, within the Colony. Any association which has been previously proscribed under any regulation repealed by these regulations shall continue to be proscribed.
17. No person shall do any act in furtherance of the objects of any such proscribed organization.
18. No person shall without lawful authority or excuse have in his possession any badge, ticket or document, or any other thing whatsoever, which purports to have been, or which appears to have been, issued by any such proscribed organization, whether before or after such proscription, or which purports to be, or which appears to be, or which appears to be intended as, evidence of membership of, or any authority from, or any association with, any such proscribed organization,
19. No person shall do any act in furtherance of the promotion of a general strike, or of disorder of any kind, or of the spread of sedition, within the Colony.
20. No person shall utter any newspaper, hook or other document containing any matter which is seditious matter as defined in the Seditious Publications Ordinance, 1914, and no person shall say anything which if reduced to writing would be seditious matter as so defined,
21. It shall be lawful for any police officer to seize any thing whatsoever which may appear to belong to, or to be connected with, or to be intended to be used for the pur- poses of, any proscribed organization, and it shall be lawful for a magistrate, upon such notice (if any) as he shall think fit, to order any such thing to be forfeited. Any thing so forfeited shall be disposed of in such manner as the Inspector General of Police may direct.
NEWSPAPERS, ETC.
22. No person shall print, publish, or distribute any newspaper, placard or pampli- let containing any matter in the Chinese language (other than a bona fide trade adver- tisement) which has not been previously submitted to and passed by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, nor shall any person print, publish or distribute any news-sheet in the Chinese language as an extra, nor shall any person post up any placard purporting to contain in the Chinese language any portion of the contents of any newspaper, or any aunouncement relating to the contents of any newspaper, unless the printing, publishing or distribution of sucli extra or the posting up of such placard has been authorised and unless the form and arrangement as well as the matter contained in such extra and pla- card has been previously approved by the Secretary for Chinese Affairs or any Assistant Secretary for Chinese Affairs.
23. No person shall import, print, publish, reproduce, have in his possession or under his control, post up or distribute any newspaper, placard, pamphlet, writing or pictorial representation calculated or tending to persuade or induce any person or per- sons, whether individually or as members of the general public:
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(1) to refrain from dealing with, trading with, working for or hiring any person or persons in the course of trade, business, occupation, or employment; (2) to do any act calculated or tending to cause a breach of the peace;
(3) to interfere with the administration of the law or with the maintenance of
law and order.
24. No person shall, without the permission of the Secretary for Chinese Affairs, import any newspaper, placard or pamphlet containing any matter in the Chinese lau- guage other than a bona fide trade advertisement. No person shall have in his posses- sion any newspaper, placard or pamphlet imported without such permission.
25. The Governor in Council shall have power to suppress for such period as he may think fit or until further order the printing and publication of any newspaper. Any newspaper which has been previously suppressed under any regulation repealed by these regulations shall continue to be suppressed.
26. Upon the making of any order for the suppression of any newspaper the Inspector General of Police shall seize and detain all the machinery, type, appliances paper, printing materials, writing materials, books, documents, writings, effects and things of or pertaining to the suppressed newspaper, with power to remove the same or any part thereof to such place or places within the Colony as he may in his discretion see fit, and there to keep the same so long as such order shall subsist.
All expenses incurred by the Inspector General of Police shall be repaid to him before the return by him of the property, effects and things seized, and in default of payment of such ex- penses, or any part thereof, within one month from the withdrawal of the order for suppression, the property, effects and things seized shall be sold by him to satisfy such expenses, and he shall apply the net proceeds of sale in the first place in or towards satisfaction of such expenses, in the next place in payment of any rent in respect of which a distress for rent might have been levied, and in the next place he shall refund the balance (if any) to the person entitled thereto.
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