Section 48, The Public Order Act, 1965

It shall be lawful for the Prime Minister, whenever any tumult or riot has taken place or may reasonably beapprehended, or public order is otherwise endangered, by Proclamation, to put in force for a period not exceeding three months in such areas as are named in the said Proclamation all or any of the following provisions— a) a police officer may disperse any assemblage whatever; which in his opinion is likely to cause, provoke, facilitate or render more serious, any disturbance or breach of the peace in any street, highway, path or public place and may arrest any person in such assemblage refusing or delaying to disperse, or reassembling, after dispersal. Any person so reassembling shall if the Magistrate considers that there was reasonable ground for dispersing the assemblage, be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months, or to a fine not exceeding one hundred leones, or both. b) any person found in a street, highway, path or public place in possession of any stick, stave, bludgeon, iron bar, or weapon of any sort or description which, in the opinion of the police officer, he is carrying either for the purpose of assisting a disturbance or is likely to use in case of a disturbance arising, may be arrested, and if the Magistrate is of the same opinion, be summarily convicted by him, and punished in like manner as is laid down in paragraph (a); c) any person making use of any words or gestures which in the opinion of a police officer is likely to lead to a breach of the peace, may be arrested and may be summarily convicted; by him and punished in like manner as is laid down in paragraph (a).