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innocent person caught up in an unlawful assem-
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unable to escape from it because of
pressure from the crowd. The proposed amendment
could therefore give cause for further complaint
from "Justice" who might claim that the substance
of their original criticism had clearly been
accepted but that the measures taken to deal
with it were inadequate. The Governor has
accordingly been asked to give further thought
to this matter.
(d) Paragraph 6 *
"Justice" had suggested that the words
"noisy, disorderly or intimidating" might be
added before "manner" in the second line of
Ordinance
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Section 18 (1) of the Bill. I had previously origmally
been suggested that it would be preferable to
refer to conduct in a "disorderly manner", on
the ground that the word "noisy" was too vague
and might be caused by cheerful spirits and not
evil intent; and that "intimidation" is covered
The Commissioner of
by the word "disorderly".
Police has pointed out that a group of persons
could conduct themselves other than in a dis-
orderly manner and yet still cause other people
reasonably to fear a breach of the peace. The
suggestion in paragraph 6 of our Saving Despatch
Cit is considered na]
is intended as a reasonable compromise and that
the use of the phrase "in a disorderly or inti-
midating manner" would meet the point.
(e) Paragraph 7:
Section 19 of the Ordinance provides that
when any person taking part in an unlawful
assembly commits a breach of the peace, the
assembly becomes a riot and all the persons
assembled are guilty of riot.
"Justice" have
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