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No. 6 of 1914.
Ordinance
No. 23 of 1913.
Power to
Governor in
Council to declare cer-
SEDITIOUS PUBLICATIONS.
(b) "Document" includes also any painting, drawing or photograph or other visible representation.
(c) "Newspaper" means any periodical work containing public news or comments on public news.
(d) "Seditious matter" means any words, signs or visible representations contained in any newspaper, book or other document which said words, signs or visible representations are likely or may have a tendency, directly or indirectly whether by inference, suggestion, allusion, metaphor, implication or otherwise
(i) to incite to murder or to any offence under the Explosive Substances Ordinance, 1913, or to any act of violence; or
(ii) to seduce any officer, sailor or soldier in His Majesty's navy or army from his allegiance or his duty; or
(iii) to bring into hatred or contempt His Majesty, or the Government established by law in the United Kingdom or in this Colony or in any British possession or in British India or the administration of justice in any of such places or any class or section of His Majesty's subjects in any of such places or to excite disaffection towards His Majesty or any of the said Governments; or
(iv) to put any person in fear or to cause annoyance to him and thereby induce him to deliver to any person any property or valuable security, or to do any act which he is not legally bound to do, or to omit to do any act which he is legally entitled to do; or
(v) to encourage or incite any person to interfere with the administration of the law or with the maintenance of law and order; or
(vi) to convey any threat of injury to a public servant, or to any person in whom that public servant is believed to be interested, with the view to inducing that public servant to do any act or to forbear or delay to do any act connected with the exercise of his public functions.
3. Where any newspaper, book or other document wherever printed appears to the Governor in Council to contain any seditious matter, the Governor in Council may, by notification in the Gazette, declare such newspaper, book or other document to be forfeited, and thereupon any police officer may seize the same wherever found.
* As amended by No. 6 of 1915.
2248
No. 6 of 1914.
Ordinance
No. 23 of 1913.
Power to
Governor in
Council to declare cer-
SEDITIOUS PUBLICATIONS.
(b) "Document" includes also any painting, drawing or photograph or other visible representation.
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(c) "Newspaper means any periodical work containing public news or comments on public news.
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(d) Seditious matter" means any words, signs or visible representations contained in any newspaper, book or other document which said words, signs or visible representations are likely or may have a tendency, directly or indirectly whether by inference, suggestion, allusion, metaphor, im- plication or otherwise
(i) to incite to murder or to any offence under the Explosive Substances Ordinance, 1913, or to any act of violence; or
(ii) to seduce any officer, sailor or soldier in His Majesty's navy or army from his allegiance or his duty; or
(iii) to bring into hatred or contempt His Majesty, or the Government established by law in the United Kingdom or in this Colony or in any British possession or in British India or the administration of justice in any of such places or any class or section of His Majesty's subjects in any of such places or to excite disaffection towards His Majesty or any of the said Governments; or
(iv) to put any person in fear or to cause annoyance to him and thereby induce him to deliver to any person any property or valuable security, or to do any act which he is not legally bound to do, or to omit to do any act which he is legally entitled to do; or
(v) to encourage or incite any person to interfere with the administration of the law or with the maintenance of law and order; or
(vi) to convey any threat of injury to a public servant, or to any person in whom that public servant is believed to be interested, with the view to inducing that public servant to do any act or to forbear or delay to do any act connected with the exercise of his public functions.
3. Where any newspaper, book
book or other document wherever printed appears to the Governor in Council to contain any seditious matter, the Governor in Council may, tain publica- by notification in the Gazette, declare such newspaper, book tions forfeit- or other document to be forfeited, and thereupon any police
officer may seize the same wherever found.
ed.
* As amended by No. 6 of 1915.
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