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CHAPTER 110.
BOY SCOUTS AND GIRL GUIDES.
ARRANGEMENT OF SECTIONS.
SECTION.
1. Short title.
2. Interpretation.
3. Restriction on use of uniforms, etc., of Boy Scouts and Girl Guides
Associations.
4. Prohibition of the formation, etc., of bodies claiming without
authority to be connected with either of the Associations.
5. Penalty in case of Boy Scouts pretending to be police officers, etc.
CHAPTER 110.
BOY SCOUTS AND GIRL GUIDES.
An Ordinance to Protect the Activities and Interests of the Boy 6 of 1924.
Scouts and Girl Guides Associations.
[10TH JUNE, 1924.]
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Boy Scouts and Girl Short title.
Guides Associations Ordinance, and shall apply to the Colony
and to the Protectorate.
2. In this Ordinance- Interpreta-
tion.
" the Boy Scouts Association " means the Boy Scouts
Association incorporated under the Royal Charter granted on
the fourth day of January, nineteen hundred and twelve;
" Boy Scout " means a Boy Scout recognised as such under
the constitution, bye-laws and rules of the Boy Scouts Asso-
ciation, and includes also all officers of the said Association;
" the Girl Guides Association " means the Girl Guides
Association incorporated under the Royal Charter granted
on the fourteenth day of December, nineteen hundred and
twenty-two;
" Girl Guide " means a Girl Guide recognised as such under
the constitution, bye-laws and rules of the Girl Guides Asso-
ciation, and includes also all officers of the said Association.
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Restriction 3. (1) It shall not be lawful for any person, not being under
on use of
uniforms, the bye-laws or rules of either one of the Associations men-
etc. of Boy tioned in the last preceding section duly authorised and entitled
Scouts and
Girl Guides so to do, publicly to wear, carry or bear any uniform, badge,
Associations. token or emblem which under the said bye-laws or rules is
specifically adopted for use under the authority of such
Association, in such style or manner as to convey an impression
that such person is under the said bye-laws or rules entitled so to
wear, carry or bear such uniform, badge, token or emblem.
(2) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this
section shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on
summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding five pounds.
Prohibition of 4. (l) It shall not be lawful for any person to form, organise,
the forma-
tion, etc., of or work in connection with, or to be concerned in forming,
bodies organising, or in work in connection with-
claiming
without (a) any corps or body which, without due authority
authority to granted under the Royal Charter of the Boy Scouts Associa-
be connected
with either of tion, claim or purport to be Boy Scouts or otherwise to be
the connected with the said Association, or which hold them-
Associations.
selves out as, or pass themselves off as, Boy Scouts or as
otherwise connected with the said Association, or
(b) any corps or body which, without due authority
granted under the Royal Charter of the Girl Guides Associa-
tion, claim or purport to be Girl Guides or otherwise to be
connected with the said Association, or which hold them-
selves out as, or pass themselves off as, Girl Guides or as
otherwise connected with the said Association.
(2) Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of this
section shall be guilty of an offence, and shall be liable on
summary conviction thereof to a fine not exceeding ten pounds,
or to imprisonment with or without hard labour for a period
not exceeding one month, or to both such fine and imprisonment.
Penalty in 5. (1) It shall not be lawful for any Boy Scout, not being
case of Boy otherwise thereunto lawfully entitled and authorised, to pretend
Scouts
pretending to to be, or to pass himself off as, or to arrogate to himself the
be police authority, position, or powers of, or to claim to be or to act
officers, etc.
as-
(a) a member of the Police Force.
(b) an officer exercising police functions in the service of
any native authority.
(c) an agent or officer of the Government or of any native
authority or tribunal.
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(d) a member of the Royal West African Frontier Force;
or
(e) a member of the Sierra Leone Regiment or of any other
body of Imperial Troops.
(2} No Boy Scout shall seek or attempt by virtue of his
wearing any uniform, badge, token, or emblem of the Boy
Scouts Association, or uniform, badge, token, or emblem
purporting or appearing to be such, to enforce or exercise
authority otherwise than in accordance with and as authorised
by the bye-laws or rules of the said Association.
(3} Any person who contravenes any of the provisions of
this section shall be guilty of an offence, and, on conviction
thereof before the Supreme Court, shall be liable to a fine not
exceeding twenty-five pounds or to imprisonment, with or
without hard labour, for a term not exceeding twelve months
or to both such fine and imprisonment:
Provided always that it shall be lawful for a Magistrate to
deal with any offence under this section summarily if in the
opinion of such Magistrate the offence will be adequately
punished by a fine not exceeding ten pounds, or by imprison-
ment, with or without hard labour, for a term not exceeding
three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment.
TITLE XVI.
NEWSPAPERS AND PUBLICATIONS.
CHAPTER. PAGE.
111. NEWSPAPERS 1178
112. PuBLICATIONS 1183
113. UNDESIRABLE PuBLICATIONS 1186
114. UNDESIRABLE ADVERTISEMENTS 1189
115. CINEMATOGRAPH EXHIBITIONS 1194
