The Public Order (Amendment) Act, 1966

Assented July, 1966. L$ No. 17 to in Her Majesty's name this 15th day of YuNlaFRErDOMEI Sierra Leone H. J. L. BOSTON, Governor-General. The Public Order (Amendment) Act, 1966 [21st July, 1966.] bE IT ENACTED by the Oueen's Most Excellent Majesty. by and WiUh the advice and consent of the House of Represcntatives in S Present Parliament assembled. and by the authority of the Same, as follows: Second linethereof of the figure 33 hereby amended by the substitution for the figurc A 73 Short title. subsection (2) of section 34 of the Public Order Act is Amend ( 34 "* in the Ment of Scction 34 of Act No. 46 of 1965. Date of com mencement. A 74 Repeal and replacement of section 45 of Act No. 46 of 1965. No. 17 Public Order (Amendment) 1966

Section 45 of the Public Order Act is hercby repcalcdand replaced by the following new section 45. It shall be Jawful for the Prime Minister, whencver any tumult or riot has taken place or may reasonably be apprehended, or public order is otherwise endangcred, by proclamation, to put in force for a period not excceding thrcc months in such areas as are named in the Proclamation all or any of the following provisions (a) a Police Officer may disperse any asseniblage whalevcr which in his opinion is likely to cause, provoke, facili tate or render more serious, any disturbance or breach of the peace in any street, highway path or public place and may arrest without a warrant any person in such assemblage refusing or delaying to disperse reassembling aftcr dispersal. and charge such person before a Magistrate. Any person so charged shall if the Magistrate is of the same opinion as aforcsaid, be convicted and liable on such conviction to imprison ment for a period not exceeding six Inonths or to a fine not exceeding one hundred lcones, or both: Or (6) any person found in a strect, bighway, path or public place in possession of any stick, stave, bludgcon, iron bar or weapon of any sort or description which, in thc opinion of a Police Oficer he is carrying or is likcly to use for the purpose of assisting a disturbance may be arrested, without a warrant and charged before a Magistrate and if the Magistrate is of the same opinion as aforesaid, shall be 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 are likely to lead to a breach of the peace, may be arrested without a warrant and charged before a Magistrate and if thc Magistrate is of the same opinion as aforesaid shall be convicted by him and punished in like manner as is laid down in paragraph (a).'". No. 17 Public Order (A mend1ment) 1966 M.P. PSF 1080 A 75 Passed in the House of Representatives this /7th day of June, in the vear of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and sixty-six. S. V. WRIGHT, Clerk of the House of Representatives. THIs PRINTED 0MPRESSION has been carefully comnpared by me with the Bill which has passed the House of Representatives and found by me to be a true and correctly printed copy of the said Bill. S. V. WRIGHT, Clerk of the House of Representatives.