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PEACE PRESERVATION . [ 15 OF 1886. ] 825


No. 15 OF 1886 .
An Ordinance entitled The Peace Preservation Ordinance,
1886.
[ 2nd June, 1886.]
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PART I.
Appointment of special constables.
1. Whenever it appears to the Governor that any tumult or Power to ap
riot has taken place, or may be reasonably apprehended, and point special
that the ordinary officers appointed for preserving the peace are
not sufficient for the preservation of the peace, it shall be lawful
for the Governor to authorize any Magistrate to summon , by
writing in the form in schedule ( A ) , before him , any number
of persons resident, or being then within the Colony, then and
there to be appointed and to act as special constables within
the said Colony, so long as the said authority shall remain in
force .

Provided that, it shall be lawful for the said Magistrate, if it
appears to him upon the oath of any person that there is good
and sufficient cause to believe that any person intended to be
appointed a special constable is concealing himself in order to
avoid service of the summons, or that he is likely to disobey
the same, to issue a warrant, in the form of schedule ( B ) in
the first instance for the purpose of bringing before him persons
so to be appointed .
2. Every special constable shall have the same powers for Power of
special
the preservation of the peace , the prevention of offences, the constables.
apprehension of offenders, and for all other purposes, and the
same privileges , protection , and immunities, as the members of
the Police Force enrolled under the Police ordinance , except
as to pay and pension, or other reward , and shall be subject to
the orders of the Governor, the Magistrates, the Captain Super
intendent of Police, and any one or more Justices of the Peace
for the Colony, who shall be authorized by the Governor to act
in that behalf .
3. Any person required to serve as a special constable under Penalty for
this ordinance, who shall refuse , or otherwise omit without appear.
refusing to
reasonable excuse, to appear as special constable, shall be liable
on summary conviction thereof by a Magistrate to imprison
ment with or without hard labour for any term not exceerling
two months, or to pay a penalty not exceeding one hundred
dollars, or to both.