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Sedition.

CHAPTER 217.

SEDITION.

[CAP. 217

To make better provision for the prevention and punishment 13 of 1938.

of sedition.

[2nd September, 1938.]

28 of 1938. 22 of 1950.

1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Sedition Short title. Ordinance.

2. In this Ordinance-

"import" includes to bring or cause to be brought into the

Colony;

"publication" includes all written or printed matter and

everything, whether of a nature similar to written or printed matter or not, containing any visible representa- tion, or by its form, shape, or in any manner capable of suggesting words or ideas, and every copy and reproduc- tion of any publication;

"seditious publication" means a publication having a

seditious intention;

"seditious words" means words having a seditious intention.

3. (1) A "seditious intention" is an intention- (a) to bring into hatred or contempt or to excite dis- affection against the person of His Majesty, or His Heirs or Successors, or against the Government of this Colony or the government of any other part of His Majesty's dominions or of any territory under His Majesty's protection as by law established; or (b) to excite His Majesty's subjects or inhabitants of the Colony to attempt to procure the alteration, otherwise than by lawful means, of any other matter in the Colony as by law established; or

(c) to bring into hatred or contempt or to excite dis- affection against the administration of justice in the Colony; or

(d) to raise discontent or disaffection amongst His Majesty's subjects or inhabitants of the Colony; or (e) to promote feelings of ill-will and hostility between

different classes of the population of the Colony,

Definitions.

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Seditious intention.

28 of 1938, s. 2.

but an act, speech or publication is not seditious by reason 28 of 1938, s. 2 only that it intends-

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