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or the manner in which, members or adherents of the society

(whether those persons or others) were organized or trained or

equipped.

Control of

public

PART III.

Control of public meetings and processions.

6. The Commissioner of Police may, if it appears to him to

gatherings.X be necessary or expedient in the interests of public order so to

do, in such manner as he may think fit by order

(a)

(Cap. 228.)

notwithstanding the issue of any permit under paragraph

(29) of section 4 of the Summary Offences Ordinance,

control and direct the extent to which music may be

played, or to which music or human speech or any other

sound may be amplified, broadcast, relayed, or otherwise

reproduced by artificial means, in public places;

(b) control and direct the conduct of all public gatherings

and specify the route by which, and the time at which,

any public procession may pass;

(c) for any of the purposes aforesaid, give or issue such

orders as he may consider necessary or expedient.

Licensing of public meetings and public processions.

Excludes religiout meetings

7. (1) No public meeting, other than a public meeting

exclusively for religious purposes, and no public procession

shall take place save under and in accordance with the terms and

conditions of a licence in that behalf issued under this section,

and no such public meeting and no public procession shall be

advertised or otherwise publicized unless such a licence therefor

has been issued.

(2) Any person wishing to hold, convene, organize or form

a public meeting, other than a public meeting exclusively for