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Section 5 of the Emergency Provisions Act
[Burma
Act 17, 1950] (9th March 1950)
(Unofficial
Translation)
5.
Whoever does anything with any of the following intent;
that is to say;-
(a)
to depreciate, pervert, hinder, restrain, or vandalise
the loyalty, enthusiasm, acquiescence, health, training, or
performance of duties of the army organisations of the Union
or of civil servants in a way that would induce their respect
of the government to be diminished, or to disobey rules, or
to be disloyal to the government; or
(b)
to cause, seduce, or urge any member of the army organisations
of the Union or any civil servant in a way that would induce
him to fulfil his duties improperly, or to fail to perform
his duties; or
(c)
to hinder the recruitment of members to the army organisations
of the Union, or civil service organisations, or fire brigades,
or any other organisations registered or performing as governmental
service, or to hamper the performance of duties of such members:
or
(d)
to alarm the people or a group of people in a way that
would created panic amongst them; or
(e)
to spread false news, knowing, or having reason to
believe that it is not true; or
(f)
to hamper, obstruct or harass any transportation, tasks,
manufacture or transportation of military weapons and munitions,
or supply or distribution of essential items, necessary of
effective implementation of the restoration of law and order
of the State; or
(g)
to partly or wholly destroy military weapons and munitions
in order that they could not be viable or be dangerous, or
to endanger or imperil a person involved in transportation
or manufacture of transportation of such military weapons
and munitions; or
(h)
to make the public lose trust in the State's economy,
government loans, government securities, coins and legal tenders
distributed wholly or partly in the country or to hamper operational
or economic success carried out by the government in order
to implement the restoration of law and order successfully;
or
(i)
to incite either the public or any other kind of ethnic
race or any other person to deny or delay his payment in curried
for land revenue, revenue, tax, or any other kind of payment
to be paid to the Union, or the federal government, or a board
of regional authorities in accordance with the law or with
the customs that have the effect of law; or
(j)
to affect the morality or conduct of the public or
a group of people in a way that would undermine the security
of the Union or the restoration of law and order; or
(k)
to incite civil servants, or a group of civil servants,
or any other civil servant to be involved in armed opposition
punishable by criminal laws; or
(l)
to directly or indirectly take part in committing the
offences prescribed in the Arms Act or the Explosive Ammunitions
Act, or the Explosive Substances Act; or
(m)
to directly or indirectly encourage, incite, prepare
or show agreement to arrangements or activities for the purpose
of defiance or non-abidance of laws, or to avoid abiding by
the law, or to hinder compliance of the judicial process or
to the restoration or law and order, or to refuse to make
payments prescribed in sub-section
(n) or to delay such payments, or to rally
people or to prepare to do so or to raise funds to do so in
order to develop such activities or programmes, or to directly
or indirectly encourage, incite, prepare or show concurrence
with the raising funds for that purpose shall be punished
with an imprisonment for a term which shall extend to 7 years
or with fine or with both.
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