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UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLIES AND PROCESSIONS ACT 1958
TABLE OF PROVISIONS
Long Title
1. Short title, commencement and division
2. Repeal and savings
PART I--UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLIES
5. Riotous meetings
6. Persons not dispersing after notice guilty of a misdemeanour
7. Not to extend to meetings for election of members of Parliament
9. Form of procedure
PART II--PARTY PROCESSIONS
10. Unlawful processions and assemblies
11. Magistrate to disperse such processions
12. Persons refusing to disperse to be apprehended and punished
PART III--SPECIAL CONSTABLES
13. Magistrate may appoint special constables[1]
14. Penalty for refusing to take the oath or affirmation of office
15. Non-residents may be appointed as special constables
16. Powers of special constables
17. Punishment for assaulting or resisting constables
18. Magistrates may make regulations respecting special constables and may remove them for misconduct
19. Power in special sessions to discontinue the services of constables
20. Special constables to deliver arms etc. to successors
21. Magistrates' Courts may order allowances to the special constables
24. Nothing here contained to abridge the power of justices
25. No formal information required
PART IV--RIOTOUSLY DISTURBED DISTRICTS
26. Definition
27. Magistrates' Court may summon jury
28. Constitution of jury
29. Court may summon witnesses
30. Jury shall by verdict define the area disturbed and fix date since when disturbed
31. Verdict of seven the verdict of all
32. Governor in Council may proclaim disturbed district as defined
33. Proclamation shall bring district under the operation of this Part
34. Losses in proclaimed districts to be levied from inhabitants thereof
35. Appointment of commissioner for each proclaimed district
36. Expense of commissioner to be levied from inhabitants of proclaimed district
37. Time and place of claims for compensation for losses in proclaimed district
38. Claimant for losses by the Crown
39. Requisites of claim
40. Notice when and where commissioner will investigate claims
41. Summoning of jury to try claims
42. Commissioner may summon witnesses
43. Mode of impanelling jury of assessors to try each claim
44. Matters to be tried by the commissioner and assessors in each claim
45. Conditions under which an award may be made in favour of a claimant
46. Unsuccessful claimant made liable for costs
47. Summary process to recover such costs
48. Expenses of enforcing Act to be levied from inhabitants of proclaimed district
49. Census to be taken of inhabitants of proclaimed district for apportioning amounts charged
50. Commissioner to publish census etc.
51. Commissioner to investigate objections and determine on them
52. Final adjustment to be published
53. Summary proceedings to recover assessment from defaulters
54. Commissioner to pay into Treasury all receipts and give certificates to claimants
55. Payment out of Treasury after deducting expenses
SCHEDULE
ENDNOTES
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