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persons.
Combination to stop trade.
[cf. Second Schedule.]
Flogging for offences during con-
tinuance of proclamation.
*
Second Schedule.
No. 10 of 1886.
PEACE PRESERVATION.
person to enter, without a warrant and with or without assistance, using force in either case, if necessary, into any dwelling-house or other building, or into any place into which he may have reasonable cause to suspect that persons lately riotously assembled or engaged on any unlawful purpose have made their escape, or in which he may have reasonable cause to suspect that persons about to break the peace are assembled, and may apprehend and take into custody the said persons; and every person so arrested may be detained until he can be conveniently brought before a magistrate to be dealt with according to law.
12. Every person who, during the continuance of any such proclamation-
(1) unlawfully combines to procure a stoppage of the sale or transit from place to place of provisions or other articles; or
(2) unlawfully combines to procure shopkeepers, dealers, or other persons to discontinue the sale or transit from place to place of provisions or other articles; or
(3) prevents or endeavours to prevent any person from purchasing or from being supplied with any such articles,
shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.
12A. (1) Notwithstanding anything in any other Ordinance to the contrary, every male person who during the continuance of any proclamation under this Ordinance, commits any offence against any of the enactments mentioned in the Second Schedule shall, in addition to any other punishment by law provided, be liable on conviction, whether on indictment or summarily, to be flogged.
(2) In all cases where the punishment of flogging is awarded under this section the following provisions shall have effect:-
(a) the sentence shall prescribe the number of strokes to be inflicted;
(b) the number of strokes shall not exceed twenty-four in the case of an offender whose age exceeds sixteen years, or
* As amended by No. 33 of 1936 [28.8.36].
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persons.
Combination to stop trade.
[cf. Second Schedule.]
Flogging for offences during con-
tinuance of proclamation.
*
Second Schedule.
No. 10 of 1886.
PEACE PRESERVATION.
person to enter, without a warrant and with or without assistance, using force in either case, if necessary, into any dwelling-house or other building, or into any place into which he may have reasonable cause to suspect that persons lately riotously assembled or engaged on any unlawful purpose have made their escape, or in which he may have reasonable cause to suspect that persons about to break the peace are assembled, and may apprehend and take into custody the said persons; and every person so arrested may be detained until he can be conveniently brought before a magistrate to be dealt with according to law.
12. Every person who, during the continuance of any such proclamation-
(1) unlawfully combines to procure a stoppage of the sale or transit from place to place of provisions or other articles; or
(2) unlawfully combines to procure shopkeepers, dealers, or other persons to discontinue the sale or transit from place to place of provisions or other articles; or
(3) prevents or endeavours to prevent any person from pur- chasing or from being supplied with any such articles,
shall upon summary conviction be liable to a fine not exceeding fifty dollars, and to imprisonment for any term not exceeding three months.
12A. (1) Notwithstanding anything in any other Ordin- ance to the contrary, every male person who during the continuance of any proclamation under this Ordinance, commits any offence against any of the enactments mentioned in the Second Schedule shall, in addition to any other punishment by law provided, be liable on conviction, whether on indictment or summarily, to be flogged.
(2) In all cases where the punishment of flogging is awarded under this section the following provisions shall have effect:-
(a) the sentence shall prescribe the number of strokes to be inflicted;
(b) the number of strokes shall not exceed twenty-four in the case of an offender whose age exceeds sixteen years, or
* As amended by No. 33 of 1936 [28.8.36].
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