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Penalty on endeavour to break up public meeting.
8 Edw. 7,
c.66, s.I.
[of. 1 Edw.8
c.6, s.6.]
association or in organising or training as aforesaid any members or adherents thereof shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) In any criminal proceeding under this section proof of things done or of words spoken, written or published by any person taking part in the control or management of an association or in organising, training or equipping members or adherents of an associa- tion shall be admissible as evidence of the purposes for which, or the manner in which, members or adherents of the association (whether those persons or others) were organised, or trained, or equipped.
(3) If a magistrate is satisfied by an information on oath that there is reasonable ground for suspecting that an offence under this section has been committed, and that evidence of the commission thereof is to be found at any premises or place specified in the infor- mation, he may, upon an application made by an officer not below the rank of Sub-Inspector, grant a search warrant authorising any such officer as aforesaid named in the warrant and any other officers of police to enter the premises or place at any time within 14 days of the warrant, if necessary by force, and to search the premises or place and every person found therein, and to seize anything found on the premises or place or on any such person which the officer has reasonable ground for suspecting to be evidence of the commission Provided that a woman shall be of such an offence as aforesaid:
searched by a woman.
5. (1) Any person who at a lawful public meeting acts in a disorderly manner for the purpose of preventing the transaction of the business for which the meeting was called together or incites others so to act shall be guilty of an offence.
(2) If any constable reasonably suspects any person of & 1 Geo. 6, committing an offence under this section, he may, if requested so to do by the chairman of the meeting, require that person to declare to him immediately his name and address and if that person refuses or fails so to declare his name and address or gives a false name and address he shall be guilty of an offence and if the constable suspects him of giving a false name and address, the constable may arrest him without a warrant.
Security for keeping the
peace on conviction. Criminal Procedure Code, Straits Settlements, 5.73.
6. (1) Whenever any person accused of—
(a) rioting, assault or other breach of the peace or
abetting the same;
(b) assembling armed men or taking other unlawful measures with the intention of committing any such offence as is specified in paragraph (a);
(c) committing criminal intimidation by threatening in- jury to person or property;
is convicted of such offence, and the Court or magistrate before which such person is convicted is of opinion that it is necessary to require
such person to execute a bond for keeping the peace, such Court or magistrate may, at the time of passing sentence or in lieu of any sentence, order him to execute a bond for a sum proportionate to his means with or without sureties for keeping the peace during such period, in each instance, as it thinks fit to fix, not exceeding two years.
(2) If the conviction is set aside on appeal or otherwise, the bond so executed shall be null and void.
7.
Whenever it appears to a magistrate receiving information Security, for good
behaviour
that-
(a) any person is taking precautions to conceal his presence from suspected in the Colony and there is reason to believe such person is taking persons, etc., such precautions with a view to committing an offence; or
(b) there is within the Colony a person who cannot give a disseminating satisfactory account of himself; or
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(c) there is within the Colony any person who within or [ef. Criminal without the Colony either orally or in writing disseminates or attempts Code, Straits to disseminate or in any way abets the dissemination of any seditious Settlements, matter, that is to say, any matter the publication of which is punish- s.76.] able under section 4 of the Sedition Ordinance, 1988; or
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(d) any person has committed, or is about to commit or 1938. attempt to commit, any act calculated to interfere with the admini- stration of the law or with the maintenance of law and order;
such magistrate may, in manner hereinafter provided, require such person to show cause why he should not be ordered to execute a bond with sureties for his good behaviour for a period not exceeding two years.
8. (1) When a person is required to show cause under sections Order to be 6 and 7, the magistrate shall make an order in writing setting forth- made,
(a) the substance of the information received; (b) the amount of the bond to be executed;
required.
(c) the term for which it is in force;
(d) the number, character and class of sureties, if any,
Criminal
Procedure Code, Straits Settlements, 5.78.
If the person is in Court, the order shall be read over to him and, if Criminal necessary, the substance explained. If he is not in Court, the Procedure magistrate shall bring him before it by summons or by warrant as he Code, Straits deems appropriate in the circumstances of the case. Every summons
Settlements, ss.79, 80 and
or warrant issued shall be accompanied by a copy of the order and 81. such copy shall be delivered by the officer executing the process.
(2) When a person appears or is brought before a Court in Criminal pursuance of an order as aforesaid, the magistrate shall inquire into Procedure the truth of the information as far as is practicable in the manner
Code, Straits prescribed in summary cases, except that no charge need be framed. $.83.
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(3) If it is proved that it is necessary to keeping the peace Criminal or maintaining good behaviour, as the case may be, that the person Code, Straits named in the order should execute a bond with or without sureties, Settlements, the magistrate shall make an order accordingly.
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