Section 127Chapter IX

Assembly to disperse on command of Magistrate or police officer

UNLAWFUL ASSEMBLIES

(1) Any 156[Executive Magistrate] or officer in charge of a police-station may command any unlawful assembly, or any assembly of five or more persons likely to cause a disturbance of the public peace, to disperse; and it shall thereupon be the duty of the members of such assembly to disperse accordingly.

(2)

[Omitted by the Schedule of the Adaptation of Central Acts and Ordinances Order, 1949.]