Victorian Consolidated Legislation

UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLIES AND PROCESSIONS ACT 1958

No. 6406 of 1958
Version incorporating amendments as at 7 September 2007

TABLE OF PROVISIONS

           Section Page
   1.      Short title, commencement and division
   2.      Repeal and savings

   PART I-UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLIES

           3, 4. Repealed
   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
   8.      Repealed
   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
   14.     Penalty for refusing to take the oath 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
           22, 23. Repealed
   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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           SCHEDULE-Repeal
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           ENDNOTES
           1. General Information
           2. Table of Amendments
   3.      Explanatory Details