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5. (1) If the members or adherents of any society are- (a) organized or trained or equipped for the purpose of

enabling them to be employed in such a manner that such employment usurps, may usurp, tends to usurp or appears to usurp the functions of the police or the armed forces of the Crown; or

(b) organized and trained or organized and equipped for the purpose of enabling them to be employed for the use or display of physical force in promoting any political object, or in such manner as to arouse reasonable apprehension that they are organized and either trained or equipped for that purpose,

then-

(i) any person who is a member or adherent of such society shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for three years; and

(ii) any person who takes part in the control or management of such society, or in organizing or training or equipping as aforesaid any members or adherents of the society, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on con- viction on indictment to imprisonment for ten years and on summary conviction to a fine of five thousand dollars and to imprisonment for five years.

(2) In any criminal proceedings under this section, proof of things done or of words spoken, written or published, whether or not in the presence of a party to the proceedings, by any person taking part in the control or management of a society or in organizing, training or equipping members or adherents of a society shall be admissible as evidence of the purposes for which, or the manner in which, members or adherents of the society (whether those persons or others) were organized or trained or equipped.

Prohibition of quasi-military organizations.

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PART III.

CONTROL OF PUBLIC MEETINGS AND PROCESSIONS.

The Commissioner of Police may, if it appears to him to be necessary or expedient in the interests of public order so to do, in such manner as he may think fit by order-

(a) 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 play- ed, or to which music or human speech or any other

Control of public gatherings.

(Cap. 228.)