UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLIES AND PROCESSIONS ACT 1958
Table of Provisions
- 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
