Victorian Current Acts

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  
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