An Ordinance to amend the Human Leopard and Alligator Societies Ordinance, 1909
No. 17 of 1912
Enacting Clause.
Be it enacted by the Governor of the Colony of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:—
Short Title.
1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Human Leopard and Alligator Societies Amendment Ordinance, 1912.
Proclamation of districts.
2.—(1) Whenever it appears to the Governor that a murder has been committed in connection with an unlawful society in any chiefdom, it shall be lawful for him by proclamation to declare such chiefdom or any part thereof to be a proclaimed district.
(2) In a proclaimed district it shall be lawful for a District Commissioner to order the arrest and detention in custody of any person whose arrest and detention he may consider desirable in the interests of justice. A warrant under the hand of a District Commissioner shall be sufficient authority to the person named therein to detain any such person in such place as shall be mentioned therein.
No. 28 of 1909.