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purposes.

Under clause 7(2), the Commissioner or Police will

be obliged to issue a licence if he is satisfied that the meeting

or procession is not likely to prejudice law and order or be used

for any unlawful or immoral purpose, A licence may be granted

subject to conditions (clause 7(3))and clause 8 empowers the

Commissioner of Police to cancel or amend a licence already issued.

The licensee will be required to be present throughout the meeting

or prosession (clause 9). Clause 10 provides an appeal to the

Governor against the refusal or cancellation of a licence and

against the conditions to which a licence is subject.

5.

Control of meetings, processions and gatherings of

people will be exercised under clause 11. Any police officer will

be able to prevent the holding of, stop or disperse an unlicensed

public meeting or public procession, Other meetings, processions

or lead

or gatherings will be subject to control by a police officer of

or above the rank of inspector if the meeting, procession or

gathering is causing or is in his opinion likely to cause

to a breach of the peace. The position will be that any such

police officer may prevent the holding of, stop or disperse, or

vary the place or route of, any public meeting, public procession

or public gathering (other than a meeting exclusively for

religious purposes) in those circumstances. The control over

public meetings for religious purposes and private meetings or

gatherings is rather more limited in that there will be no power

to prevent their being held initially. In the circumstances

specified above, a police officer of or above the rank of inspector

will, however, have power to stop or disperse the meeting or

gathering..

6.

Clause 11(3), (4), (5) and (6) confers various

ancillary powers which may be required in order to enable police

officers to exercise in an effective manner the control of

In

meetings, processions and gatherings referred to above.

particular, they may issue such orders as may be necessary and

use force to prevent the holding of, stop or disperse a meeting,