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Public Order.

(2) If any police officer reasonably suspects any person of committing an offence under this section, he may, if requested so to do by the chairman of the meeting, .require that person to declare to him immediately his name and address and if that person refuses or fails so to declare his name and address or gives a false name and address he shall be guilty of an offence and if the police officer suspects him of giving a false name and address, the police officer may arrest him without a warrant.

[CAP. 245

[ef. 1 Edw. 8 c. 6, s. 6.1.

& 1 Geo. 6,

Security for keeping the

6. (1) Whenever any person accused of— (a) rioting, assault or other breach of the peace or peace on

abetting the same;

(b) assembling armed men or taking other unlawful measures with the intention of committing any such offence as is specified in paragraph (a);

(c) committing criminal intimidation by threatening in-

jury to person or property,

is convicted of such offence, and the court or magistrate before which such person is convicted is of opinion that it is necessary to require such person to execute a bond for keep- ing the peace, such court or magistrate may, at the time of passing sentence or in lieu of any sentence, order him to execute a bond for a sum proportionate to his means with or without sureties for keeping the peace during such period, in each instance, as it thinks fit to fix, not exceeding two years.

(2) If the conviction is set aside on appeal or otherwise, the bond so executed shall be null and void.

conviction. Criminal Procedure

Code, Straits 8.73.

Settlements,

7. Whenever it appears to a magistrate receiving in- Security formation that—

(a) any person is taking precautions to conceal his presence in the Colony and there is reason to believe such person is taking such precautions with a view to committing an offence; or

for good behaviour from

suspected and from disseminating

persons, etc.,

persons

seditious matter or acting or

act to the prejudice of law and

[cf. Criminal'

Code, Straits

(b) there is within the Colony a person who cannot give about to

a satisfactory account of himself; or (c) there is within the Colony any person who within order.

or without the Colony either orally or in writing Procedure disseminates or attempts to disseminate or in any Settlements, way abets the dissemination of any seditious matter, that is to say, any matter the publication of which

s. 76.]

487

A